Bound for freedom [[electronic resource] ] : Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America / / Douglas Flamming
| Bound for freedom [[electronic resource] ] : Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America / / Douglas Flamming |
| Autore | Flamming Douglas |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (518 p.) |
| Disciplina | 979.4/9400496073 |
| Soggetto topico |
African Americans - California - Los Angeles - History - 19th century
African Americans - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century African Americans - Civil rights - California - Los Angeles - History Community life - California - Los Angeles - History - 19th century Community life - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century Civil rights movements - California - Los Angeles - History - 19th century Civil rights movements - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century |
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20th century african american history
20th century american history african americans american west biographical black americans black community civil rights activism critical development great depression great migration jim crow america jim crow laws jim crow la leadership los angeles louisiana political activism race in america racial segregation racism in america roaring twenties second world war separate but equal southern california southern customs united states of america |
| ISBN |
1-282-35873-1
9786612358739 0-520-94028-8 1-59734-508-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Arrival -- 1. Southern Roots, Western Dreams -- 2. The Conditions of Heaven -- 3. Claiming Central Avenue -- 4. A Civic Engagement -- 5. Politics and Patriotism -- 6. Fighting Spirit in the 1920's -- 7. The Business of Race -- 8. Surging Down Central Avenue -- 9. Responding to the Depression -- 10. Race and New Deal Liberalism -- Departure -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
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Flamming Douglas
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005 | ||
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Breadlines knee deep in wheat : food assistance in the great depression / / Janet Poppendieck ; foreword by Marion Nestle
| Breadlines knee deep in wheat : food assistance in the great depression / / Janet Poppendieck ; foreword by Marion Nestle |
| Autore | Poppendieck Janet <1945-, > |
| Edizione | [Updated and expanded edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley ; ; Los Angeles, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (401 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.8830973 |
| Collana | California Studies in Food and Culture |
| Soggetto topico |
Food relief - United States - History
Depressions - 1929 - United States Agriculture and state - United States - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
20th century american history
agricultural surplus american government american history breadlines california studies in food and culture series commercial farmers cultural studies economic system fdr food assistance government great depression history hoover administration hunger new deal food assistance effort new deal programs policy makers president franklin d roosevelt president herbert hoover roosevelt administration surplus commodities us department of agriculture widespread hunger |
| ISBN |
0-520-27754-6
0-520-95842-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Paradox of Want amid Plenty -- List of Abbreviations -- One. The Plight of the Farmer -- Two. Depression: Deprivation and Despair -- Three. The Politics of Wheat and Drought -- Four. Government Grain for the Needy -- Five. The End of the Hoover Era -- Six. The Promise of the New Deal -- Seven. The Little Pigs: The Genesis of Relief Distribution -- Eight. The Federal Surplus Relief Corporation -- Nine. The Corporation in Conflict: Competition with Private Enterprise -- Ten. Transfer to the Department of Agriculture -- Eleven. Accommodation to Agricultural Priorities -- Twelve. Food Assistance: The Legacy of New Deal Policy Choices -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments to the 2014 Edition -- Sources -- Notes -- Index |
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Poppendieck Janet <1945-, >
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Breadlines knee deep in wheat : food assistance in the great depression / / Janet Poppendieck ; foreword by Marion Nestle
| Breadlines knee deep in wheat : food assistance in the great depression / / Janet Poppendieck ; foreword by Marion Nestle |
| Autore | Poppendieck Janet <1945-, > |
| Edizione | [Updated and expanded edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley ; ; Los Angeles, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (401 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.8830973 |
| Collana | California Studies in Food and Culture |
| Soggetto topico |
Food relief - United States - History
Depressions - 1929 - United States Agriculture and state - United States - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
20th century american history
agricultural surplus american government american history breadlines california studies in food and culture series commercial farmers cultural studies economic system fdr food assistance government great depression history hoover administration hunger new deal food assistance effort new deal programs policy makers president franklin d roosevelt president herbert hoover roosevelt administration surplus commodities us department of agriculture widespread hunger |
| ISBN |
0-520-27754-6
0-520-95842-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Paradox of Want amid Plenty -- List of Abbreviations -- One. The Plight of the Farmer -- Two. Depression: Deprivation and Despair -- Three. The Politics of Wheat and Drought -- Four. Government Grain for the Needy -- Five. The End of the Hoover Era -- Six. The Promise of the New Deal -- Seven. The Little Pigs: The Genesis of Relief Distribution -- Eight. The Federal Surplus Relief Corporation -- Nine. The Corporation in Conflict: Competition with Private Enterprise -- Ten. Transfer to the Department of Agriculture -- Eleven. Accommodation to Agricultural Priorities -- Twelve. Food Assistance: The Legacy of New Deal Policy Choices -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments to the 2014 Edition -- Sources -- Notes -- Index |
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| Berkeley ; ; Los Angeles, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 | ||
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Everett Ruess [[electronic resource] ] : his short life, mysterious death, and astonishing afterlife / / Philip L. Fradkin
| Everett Ruess [[electronic resource] ] : his short life, mysterious death, and astonishing afterlife / / Philip L. Fradkin |
| Autore | Fradkin Philip L |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina |
811/.52
B |
| Soggetto topico |
Poets, American - 20th century
Explorers - Southwest, New |
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20th century artists
american artists american disappearances american legends american mystery american southwest american west ansel adams art history artist biography crime criminal investigation depression era art dorothea lange edward weston great depression historical disappearances history into the wild mysteries of the west mysterious death mystery and adventure southwestern history unsolved disappearances unsolved mysteries utah artists utah history utah mysteries vagabond artists |
| ISBN |
1-283-27829-4
9786613278296 0-520-94992-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- I. Davis Gulch -- II. Wanderers -- III. The Legacy, 1859 - 1913 -- IV. Growing Up, 1914 - 1929 -- V. On the Road, 1930 -- VI. Lan Rameau, 1931 -- VII. The Misfit, 1932 -- VIII. The Bohemian, 1933 -- IX. Vanished, 1934 -- X. The Search, 1935 -- XI. Healing, 1936 - 2008 -- XII. Resurrection, 2009 -- Appendix A: Wilderness Song -- Appendix B: Father and Son Dialogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
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Fradkin Philip L
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 | ||
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Hollywood in the neighborhood [[electronic resource] ] : historical case studies of local moviegoing / / edited by Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley
| Hollywood in the neighborhood [[electronic resource] ] : historical case studies of local moviegoing / / edited by Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (284 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.430973 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | Fuller-SeeleyKathryn |
| Soggetto topico |
Motion pictures - United States - History
Motion picture audiences - United States - History Motion picture theaters - United States - History |
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20th century american films
american audiences american films american heartland american midwest early film exhibition entertainment industry ethnography film audiences film industry film studies film government film exhibition great depression history of hollywood history hollywood local moviegoing media studies motion pictures movie show movie studies movies national mass media political race in film regional cultures religion in film retrospective small town theatre united states of america |
| ISBN |
0-520-94022-9
1-281-38560-3 9786611385606 1-4356-5361-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- 1.Introduction: Researching And Writing The History Of Local Moviegoing -- 2.Decente Ring Historical Audience Studies: A Modest Proposal -- 3.The Itinerant Movie Show And The Development Of The Film Industry -- 4.Early Film Exhibition In Wilmington, North Carolina -- 5.Building Movie Audiences In Placerville, California, 1908-1915 -- 6.Cinema Virtue, Cinema Vice: Race, Religion, And Film Exhibition In Norfolk, Virginia, 1908-1922 -- 7.The Movies In A "Not So Visible Place": Des Moines, Iowa, 1911-1914 -- 8.Digging The Finest Potatoes From Their Acre: Government Film Exhibition In Rural Ontario, 1917-1934 -- 9.At The Movies In The "Biggest Little City In Wisconsin" -- 10.Imagining And Promoting The Small-Town Theater -- 11.What The Picture Did For Me": Small-Town Exhibitors' Strategies For Surviving The Great Depression -- 12."Something For Nothing": Bank Night And The Refashioning Of The American Dream -- 13.Bad Sound And Sticky Floors: An Ethnographic Look At The Symbolic Value Of Historic Small-Town Movie Theaters -- 14.Conclusion: When Theory Hits The Road -- Contributors -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782160603321 |
| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 | ||
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L.A. city limits [[electronic resource] ] : African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the present / / Josh Sides
| L.A. city limits [[electronic resource] ] : African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the present / / Josh Sides |
| Autore | Sides Josh <1972-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
| Disciplina | 979.4/9400496073 |
| Soggetto topico |
African Americans - California - Los Angeles - Social conditions - 20th century
African Americans - California - Los Angeles - Economic conditions - 20th century |
| Soggetto non controllato |
1960s
african americans black americans black experience black migrants california critical history deindustrialization discussion books great depression historical los angeles modern history modern los angeles nonfiction postwar economy race riots racial diversity racial issues regional differences regional history social inequality urban america urban crisis urban landscape urban studies westward movement |
| ISBN |
0-520-93986-7
1-59734-696-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. African Americans in Prewar Los Angeles -- 2. The Great Migration and the Changing Face of Los Angeles -- 3. The Window of Opportunity: Black Work in Industrial Los Angeles, 1941-1964 -- 4. Race and Housing in Postwar Los Angeles -- 5. Building the Civil Rights Movement in Los Angeles -- 6. Black Community Transformation in the 1960's and 1970's -- Epilogue -- Maps -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782941103321 |
Sides Josh <1972->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 | ||
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Music and politics in San Francisco [[electronic resource] ] : from the 1906 quake to the Second World War / / Leta E. Miller
| Music and politics in San Francisco [[electronic resource] ] : from the 1906 quake to the Second World War / / Leta E. Miller |
| Autore | Miller Leta E |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of CA Press, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (382 p.) |
| Disciplina | 780.9794/6109041 |
| Collana | CA studies in 20th-century music |
| Soggetto topico |
Music - Political aspects - California - San Francisco - History - 20th century
Music - Social aspects - California - San Francisco - History - 20th century |
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1930s california
20th century america 20th century music american music history asian americans asian music california history california politics chinese immigration chinese opera classical music great depression history of jazz history of opera history live arts music and racism music and segregation music history and criticism music night club jazz philharmonic realistic san francisco symphony san franciscos fairs us history west coast history west coast music wwii america wwii music |
| ISBN |
1-283-31140-2
9786613311405 0-520-95009-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. The Paris of the West: San Francisco at the Turn of the Century -- 2. The Politics of Class The San Francisco Symphony, the People's Philharmonic, and the Lure of European Culture (1911 - 1930) -- 3. The Politics of Race: Chinatown, Forbidden and Alluring -- INTERLUDE 1: Two Musical Tributes to San Francisco's Chinatown -- 4. The Politics of Labor: The Union(s), the Clubs and Theaters, and the Predicament of Black Musicians -- 5. Musical Utopias: Ada Clement, Ernest Bloch, and the San Francisco Conservatory -- 6. Opera: The People's Music or a Diversion for the Rich? -- 7. The Despair of the Depression and the Clash of Race -- 8. Ultramodernism and Other Contemporary Offerings: Looking West, Challenging the East -- 9. The Politics of Work: Idealism Confronts Bureaucracy in the Federal Music Project -- INTERLUDE 2. Highlights from San Francisco's Federal Music Project: Take Your Choice and Keeton's Concert Spirituals -- 10. Welcoming the World: San Francisco's Fairs of 1915 and 1939 - 1940 -- 11. Aftermath -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Miller Leta E
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| Berkeley, : University of CA Press, c2012 | ||
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Proud to be an Okie [[electronic resource] ] : cultural politics, country music, and migration to Southern California / / Peter La Chapelle
| Proud to be an Okie [[electronic resource] ] : cultural politics, country music, and migration to Southern California / / Peter La Chapelle |
| Autore | La Chapelle Peter |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
| Disciplina | 781.64209794 |
| Collana | American crossroads |
| Soggetto topico |
Country music - California - History and criticism
Music - Political aspects Popular culture - California, Southern - History - 20th century |
| Soggetto non controllato |
1930s
1960s 1970s 20th century america american music country music scene country music cultural history cultural politics depression era dust bowl migration great depression hillbilly identity los angeles mass media mass migration merle haggard migrant musicians migration music and culture music historians music history new deal oklahoma political history regional history southern california united states us history woody guthrie |
| ISBN |
1-281-75253-3
9786611752538 0-520-94000-8 1-4294-6794-0 0-520-90402-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Big City Ways -- Part 2. Rhinestones and Ranch Homes -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784417903321 |
La Chapelle Peter
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 | ||
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War, memory, and the politics of humor [[electronic resource] ] : the Canard enchaîné and World War I / / Allen Douglas
| War, memory, and the politics of humor [[electronic resource] ] : the Canard enchaîné and World War I / / Allen Douglas |
| Autore | Douglas Allen <1949-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (347 p.) |
| Disciplina | 940.3/02/07 |
| Soggetto topico |
World War, 1914-1918
French wit and humor - History and criticism Satire, French - History and criticism World War, 1914-1918 - Press coverage - France |
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20th century
armistice battles bodies canard enchaine cannibalism carnage cartoons corpses crossdressing dissent france free press gender great depression great war history humor imperialism injured soldiers journalism leftist politics literary criticism militarism military newspaper periodicals political cartoons political commentary political speech protest satire social commentary soldier war hero war wounded war world war one ww1 |
| ISBN |
9786612356629
1-282-35662-3 0-520-92694-3 1-59734-988-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Satire and Censorship -- 2. Verbal and Visual, Humor and Politics -- 3. Unstuffing Skulls -- 4. The Tears of L'Intran -- 5. Soldiers versus Profiteers -- 6. In Vino Veritas -- 7. Peace or Postwar -- 8. Web of Memory -- 9. Between Cannibalism and Resurrection -- 10. Anti-Imperialism and Its Stereotypes -- 11. Politics as Usual -- 12. Canard Economics, or the Costs of the War -- 13. The Wealth of Nations -- 14. Conclusion -- Notes -- Index |
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Douglas Allen <1949->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 | ||
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A word from our sponsor : admen, advertising, and the golden age of radio / / Cynthia B. Meyers
| A word from our sponsor : admen, advertising, and the golden age of radio / / Cynthia B. Meyers |
| Autore | Meyers Cynthia B |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Fordham University Press, , [2013] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (404 p.) |
| Disciplina | 659.14/2097309041 |
| Soggetto topico |
Radio advertising - United States - History - 20th century
Radio programs - United States - History - 20th century Radio broadcasting - United States - History - 20th century Advertising in popular culture - United States - History - 20th century |
| Soggetto non controllato |
World War II
admen advertising agency advertising broadcasting commercial great depression mass media popular culture programming radio showmanship sponsor |
| ISBN |
0-8232-6893-4
0-8232-5371-6 0-8232-5523-9 0-8232-5377-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Dramatizing a Bar of Soap -- 2. The Fourth Dimension of Advertising -- 3. They Sway Millions as If by Some Magic Wand -- 4. ‘‘Who Owns the Time?’’ -- 5. The 1930's Turn to the Hard Sell -- 6. The Ballet and Ballyhoo of Radio Showmanship -- 7. Two Agencies -- 8. Madison Avenue in Hollywood -- 9. Advertising and Commercial Radio during World War II, 1942–45 -- 10. On a Treadmill to Oblivion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Meyers Cynthia B
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