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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
Soggetto non controllato 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
Record Nr. UNINA-9910783315703321
Flamming Douglas  
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
Record Nr. UNINA-9910791033703321
Poppendieck Janet <1945-, >  
Berkeley ; ; Los Angeles, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014
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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
Record Nr. UNINA-9910816022003321
Poppendieck Janet <1945-, >  
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
Soggetto non controllato 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
Record Nr. UNINA-9910781205603321
Fradkin Philip L  
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
Soggetto non controllato 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->  
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
Soggetto non controllato 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
Record Nr. UNINA-9910789765703321
Miller Leta E  
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  
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
Soggetto non controllato 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
Record Nr. UNINA-9910780078503321
Douglas Allen <1949->  
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
Record Nr. UNINA-9910790678403321
Meyers Cynthia B  
New York : , : Fordham University Press, , [2013]
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