Material Dreams - Southern California Through the 1920s

Informationen zum Autor Kevin Starr is the author of the series Americans and the California Dream, including the previously published Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915, and Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era. The next installment is The Dream Endures: California through the Great Depression. Klappentext Kevin Starr is the foremost chronicler of the California dream. In Material Dreams, he turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history, the 1920's, when some two million Americans migrated to California, the vast majority settling in or around Los Angeles. Zusammenfassung The third volume in Kevin Starr's history of California, which traces the development of the state and its meaning for Americans in terms of the mythical "American dream".

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Starr, Kevin (Professor of History Starr, Starr Kevin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.07.1990
• EAN: 9780195044874
• ISBN: 978-0-19-504487-4
• No. of pages: 496
• Series: Americans & the California Dre; Americans California Dream Series; Americans California Dream Series; Americans and the California D
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)