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Pages: 400
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A Los Angeles Times Bestseller "William Fulton is the Raymond Chandler of Los Angeles real estate."—Kevin Starr, California State Librarian and author of Mate
Material Dreams
Language: en
Pages: 494
Authors: Kevin Starr
Categories: California, Southern
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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In Material Dreams, Starr turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history, the 1920s, when some two million Americans migrated to Califor
Up Against the Sprawl
Language: en
Pages: 420
Authors: Jennifer R. Wolch
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

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Economists, political scientists, geographers, and urban planners explore how government policy has shaped the development of greater Los Angeles. They challeng
Latino Metropolis
Language: en
Pages: 269
Authors: Victor M. Valle
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

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Los Angeles: scratch the surface of the city's image as a rich mosaic of multinational cultures and a grittier truth emerges-its huge, shimmering economy was bu
Reluctant Revolutionaries
Language: en
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Authors: Joseph S. Tiedemann
Categories: New York (N.Y.)
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The question of why New Yorkers were such reluctant revolutionaries has long bedeviled historians. In an innovative study of New York City between 1763 and 1776