Imperial Metropolis: Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865–1941 9781469651354, 9781469651347, 2018052925, 1469651351

In this compelling narrative of capitalist development and revolutionary response, Jessica M. Kim reexamines the rise of

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Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s 9780520935525
Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s 9780520935525

Los Angeles came of age in the 1920s. The great boom of that decade gave shape to the L.A. of today: its vast suburban s

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Magnetic Los Angeles: planning the twentieth-century metropolis 9780801862557, 9780801855436
Magnetic Los Angeles: planning the twentieth-century metropolis 9780801862557, 9780801855436

Magnetic Los Angeles challenges the widely held view of the expanding twentieth-century city as the sprawling product of

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Illusions of Empire: The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands 9780812298147
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Illusions of Empire is the first study to treat antebellum U.S. foreign policy, Civil War campaigning, the French Interv

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Coast-to-Coast Empire: Manifest Destiny and the New Mexico Borderlands [Hardcover ed.] 0806160268, 9780806160269
Coast-to-Coast Empire: Manifest Destiny and the New Mexico Borderlands [Hardcover ed.] 0806160268, 9780806160269

Following Zebulon Pike’s expeditions in the early nineteenth century, U.S. expansionists focused their gaze on the South

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A Connected Metropolis: Los Angeles Elites and the Making of a Modern City, 1890–1965 1496224329, 9781496224323
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The Yaquis and the Empire: Violence, Spanish Imperial Power, and Native Resilience in Colonial Mexico 9780300210767
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This important new book on the Yaqui people of the north Mexican state of Sonora examines the history of Yaqui-Spanish i

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Concrete and Dust: Mapping the Sexual Terrains of Los Angeles : Mapping the Sexual Terrains of Los Angeles 9781136159923, 9780415808422
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Concrete and Dust focuses on the performative nature of sexualized identity in Hollywood, the people that live in its un

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South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s 9780822374169
South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s 9780822374169

Kellie Jones traces how the artists in L.A.'s black communities during the 1960s and 70s created a vibrant, product

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William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles 9780520929012
William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles 9780520929012

William Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of southern California&#

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Bohemian Los Angeles: and the Making of Modern Politics 9780520941694
Bohemian Los Angeles: and the Making of Modern Politics 9780520941694

Bohemian Los Angeles brings to life a vibrant and all-but forgotten milieu of artists, leftists, and gay men and women w

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