A Companion to Los Angeles

This Companion contains 25 original essays by writers and scholars who present an expert assessment of the best and most important work to date on the complex history of Los Angeles. The first Companion providing a historical survey of Los Angeles, incorporating critical, multi-disciplinary themes and innovative scholarship Features essays from a range of disciplines, including history, political science, cultural studies, and geography Photo essays and 'contemporary voice' sections combine with traditional historiographic essays to provide a multi-dimensional view of this vibrant and diverse city Essays cover the key topics in the field within a thematic structure, including demography, social unrest, politics, popular culture, architecture, and urban studies

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 a historian of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century American West. His recent publications include A Companion to California History (co-editor, Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past (2004), and A Companion to the American West (editor, Wiley-Blackwell, 2004). He has also co-edited Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles (2005), Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (2001), and The West in the History of the Nation (2000).

Greg Hise is Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He studies the economies, architecture, and planning of United States cities. He is the author of Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis (1997), co-author of Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region (2000), and co-editor of Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles (2005), and Rethinking Los Angeles (1996).

List of Plates
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
The Long History of a Global City
The Border Crossed US
Born Global: From Pueblo to Statehood
Race, Place, and Ethnicity in the Progressive Era
Between "White Spot" and "World City": Racial Integration and the Roots of Multiculturalism
Contemporary Voice: Where You From?
Social Flashpoints
Social Flashpoints
The Anti-Chinese Massacre of 1871 and Its Strange Career
Disposable People, Expendable Neighborhoods
Gridlock of Rage: The Watts and Rodney King Riots
Contemporary Voice: Here, Now, I
Politics and Economies
Ab urbis condita: Regional Regimes since 13,000 Before Present
Crown Jewels: Infrastructure and Growth
Consolidation, Fragmentation, and New Fiscal Federalism
Contemporary Voice: Contradictions, Coalitions, and Common Ground
Cultures and Communities
Cultures and Communities
"A Most Advantageous Spot on the Map": Promotion and Popular Culture
Tijuana and the Borders of Race
Counterculture
Cinema and the Making of a Modern City
Contemporary Voice: Looking for God in the City of Angels
Landscapes and Place
Situating Stories: What Has Been Said About Landscape and the Built Environment
Americas Playground: Recreation and Race
Landscapes of Health and Rejuvenation
Excerpts from the San Gabriel River Series
Contemporary Voice: Thickets of Density, Swaths of Emptyness
Index
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A Companion to Los Angeles

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