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UNINA9910459365703321 |
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Goggans Jan |
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California on the breadlines [[electronic resource] ] : Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and the making of a New Deal narrative / / Jan Goggans |
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Berkeley, CA, : University of California Press, 2010 |
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1-282-69771-4 |
9786612697715 |
0-520-94589-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (363 p.) |
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Women photographers - United States |
Social scientists - United States |
Rural poor - United States - History |
Depressions - 1929 - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Prologue. Uncommon Ground -- Chapter 1. From Belleau Wood to Berkeley -- Chapter 2. The Magnet of the West -- Chapter3. Labor on the Land -- Chapter 4. Far West Factories -- Chapter 5. A New Social Order -- Chapter 6. Women on the Breadlines -- Chapter 7. An American Exodus -- Conclusion. Can the Subaltern Speak? -- NOTES -- INDEX |
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California on the Breadlines is the compelling account of how Dorothea Lange, the Great Depression's most famous photographer, and Paul Taylor, her labor economist husband, forged a relationship that was private-they both divorced spouses to be together-collaborative, and richly productive. Lange and Taylor poured their considerable energies into the decade-long project of documenting the plight of California's dispossessed, which in 1939 culminated in the publication of their landmark book, American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. Jan Goggans blends biography, literature, and history to retrace the paths that brought Lange and Taylor together. She shows how American |
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Exodus set forth a new way of understanding those in crisis during the economic disaster in California and ultimately informed the way we think about the Great Depression itself. |
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UNINA9910816546903321 |
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Autore |
Harden O. Elizabeth McWhorter (Oleta Elizabeth McWhorter), <1935-> |
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Maria Edgeworth's art of prose fiction / / O. Elizabeth MacWhorter Harden |
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The Hague ; ; Paris : , : Mouton, , 1971 |
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©1971 |
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[Reprint 2015] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (260 pages) |
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Studies in English Literature ; ; 62. |
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Women and literature - Ireland - History - 19th century |
Fiction - Technique |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. EARLIEST WORKS -- II. CASTLE RACKRENT -- III. BELINDA, MORAL TALES, POPULAR TALES, AND "THE MODERN GRISELDA" -- IV. LEONORA AND TALES OF FASHIONABLE LIFE -- V. PATRONAGE, HARRINGTON, ORMOND, HELEN AND "ORLANDINO" -- VI. A FINAL ESTIMATE -- APPENDIX -- A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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