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Informationen zum Autor William Deverell is Professor of History at the University of Southern California and Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. He is the author of Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910 (California, 1994); coauthor of The West in the History of the Nation (2000) and Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for Los Angeles (California, 2000); and coeditor of Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (2001) and California Progressivism Revisited (1994), both from California. Klappentext This magnificent book, the fruit of a decade of original research, is a landmark in Los Angeles's difficult conversation with its past. Deverell brilliantly exposes the white lies and racial deceits that have for too long reigned as municipal 'history.'--Mike Davis Zusammenfassung Chronicles the rise of Los Angeles through shifting ideas of race and ethnicity, and offers its perspective on how the city grew and changed. This book considers six different developments in the history of the city, including the cementing of the Los Angeles river, the outbreak of bubonic plague in 1924, and the largest brickyard in the 1920s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Illustrations Preface: City of the Future Chapter One: The Unending Mexican War Chapter Two: History on Parade Chapter Three: Remembering a River Chapter Four: The Color of Brick Work is Brown Chapter Five: Ethnic Quarantine Chapter Six: The Drama of Los Angeles History Conclusion: Whitewashed Adobe Index
