Where Minds and Matters Meet

“Through a combination of solid scholarship and widely differing historical perspectives, the contributing authors make convincing and often counter-intuitive arguments to explain the motives behind some of the most fascinating large-scale projects undertaken during the last 100 years. While scholarly in tone, this one goes alongside Uglow’s The Lunar Men and Johnson’s The Ghost Map for just plain good reading."—Ken Phillips, Curator for Aerospace Science, California Science Center, Los Angeles

About the author

Volker Janssen is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Fullerton.

Summary

Drawing on political and social history as well as art history, this book includes essays that take a cultural measure of the region's great technological milestones, including San Diego's Panama-California Exposition, the building of the Hetch Hetchy Dam in the Sierras, and traffic planning in Los Angeles.

Product details

• Authors: Amy Bix, Louise Nelson Dyble, Volker Janssen, Patrick McCray, Linda Nash
• Assisted by: Volker Janssen (Editor), Janssen Volker (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9780520289109
• ISBN: 978-0-520-28910-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Western Histories; Western Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, HISTORY / United States / General, Local History, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, US West