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American Crossroads: Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight : Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles (Series #13) (Edition 1) (Paperback)

Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This vividly detailed cultural history of L.A. from 1940 to 1970 traces the rise of a new suburban consciousness adopted by a generation of... more

California Studies in Food and Culture: Encarnación’s Kitchen : Mexican Recipes from Nineteenth-Century California (Series #9) (Edition 1) (Paperback)

In 1991 Ruth Reichl then a Los Angeles Times food writer observed that much of the style now identified with California cuisine and with nouvelle cuisine du Mexique was practiced by Encarnación Pinedo a century earlier. A landmark of American... more

Pre-Owned Eladatl: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines (Paperback) 0872867706 9780872867703

The authors present a breathtaking free fall into the long-buried (and fictional) history of a utopian era in American lighter-than-air travel as told by its death-defying aero-acrobatic heroes. A breathtaking free fall into the long-buried (and... more

Pre-Owned Santa Clarita Valley (Paperback) 0738569380 9780738569383

A trade crossroads dating back to Native American times Santa Clarita may be relatively new in the story of Los Angeles County s suburban sprawl but old-timers also recall it as the Navel of the Universe. A Chinese general once declared the Santa... more

Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) : An American History (Hardcover)

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY Full of...lively insights and lucid prose (The Wall Street Journal) an epic sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States--from before... more

Pre-Owned Bathsheba s Breast: Women Cancer and History (Paperback) 0801880645 9780801880643

The stories of women throughout the ages who have confronted breast cancer from ancient times to the present. A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2003 and Winner of the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award for... more

The Italian in Los Angeles (1920) [LeatherBound]

Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1920 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are included in black and... more

Opportunity: The Largest Cash Heist in American History (Paperback)

Opportunity is the true story of the largest cash heist in American history. Six young men from Carson and Compton (Los Angeles California) robbed the Dunbar Armored Car facility of $18 900 000 without firing a shot. Top FBI agents stayed on the... more

Pre-Owned Race Police and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department 1900-1945 Volume 7 (Paperback) 0520213351 9780520213357

In June 1943 the city of Los Angeles was wrenched apart by the worst rioting it had seen to that point in the twentieth century. Incited by sensational newspaper stories and the growing public hysteria over allegations of widespread Mexican American... more

Pre-Owned Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits Race and Riot in Wartime L.A. (Paperback) 0807854948 9780807854945

The notorious 1942 Sleepy Lagoon murder trial in Los Angeles concluded with the conviction of seventeen young Mexican American men for the alleged gang slaying of fellow youth Jose Diaz. Just five months later the so-called Zoot Suit Riot erupted as... more

The Black American Journey: The March on Washington (Hardcover)

Explains what events led Martin Luther King Jr. to develop his famous speech I Have a Dream. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents informative captions and sidebars a phonetic glossary a time line a Think-About-It... more

Pre-Owned Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles 1900-1945 (Hardcover) 0195069900 9780195069907

Twentieth-century Los Angeles has been the locus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between variant cultures in American history. Yet this study is among the first to examine the relationship between ethnicity and identity among... more

Pre-Owned First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles (Paperback 9780816697557) by Damien M Sojoyner

9780816697557. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 288. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. California is a state of immense contradictions. Home to colossal wealth and long portrayed as a bastion of... more

Pre-Owned Wilshire Boulevard: Grand Concourse of Los Angeles (Hardcover 9781883318550) by Kevin Roderick J Eric Lynxwiler

9781883318550. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 208. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 208 p. Contains: Illustrations. Wilshire Boulevard is the unofficial Main Street of dreams that flows through Los... more

Pre-Owned Cuba: An American History (Hardcover 9781501154553) by Dr. Ada Ferrer

9781501154553. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 576. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 576 p. Contains: Illustrations. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY Full... more

Pre-Owned The Last Stand: Custer Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Paperback 9780593511381) by Nathaniel Philbrick

9780593511381. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 544. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 544 p. An engrossing and tautly written account of a critical chapter in American history. --Los Angeles Times Nathaniel... more

Pre-Owned Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam (Hardcover 9780802127006) by Mark Bowden

9780802127006. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 608. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 608 p. Contains: Illustrations. A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in History Winner of the 2018 Marine Corps Heritage... more

Pre-Owned The Last Stand: Custer Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Paperback) 0593511387 9780593511381

An engrossing and tautly written account of a critical chapter in American history. --Los Angeles Times Nathaniel Philbrick author of In the Hurricane s Eye Pulitzer Prize finalist Mayflower and Valiant Ambition is a historian with a unique ability... more

Pre-Owned Location Filming in Los Angeles (Paperback) 0738581321 9780738581323

Los Angeles has reigned for more than a century as the world capital of the film industry a unique and ever-changing city that has been molded and recast thousands of times through the artistic visions and cinematic dreams of Hollywood s elite. As... more

Los Angeles from the mountains to the sea Volume 2nd 1921

{Size: 17.78 x 24.13 cms} Lang: - English Vol: - Volume 2nd Pages 370 Print on Demand. Reprinted in 2018 with the help of original edition published long back [1921]. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt... more

Images of America: African Americans in Chicago (Paperback)

Here is the black Chicago family album of African Americans leaving the violent racist South and goin to Chicago to find the American Dream. The story of black Chicago is so rich that few know it all. It began long before the city itself. Wells the... more

Pre-Owned Location Filming in Los Angeles (Paperback) 0738581321 9780738581323

9780738581323. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 128. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 128 p. Contains: Unspecified Illustrations black & white Maps. Images of America. Los Angeles has reigned for more than a... more

Pre-Owned Race Police and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department 1900-1945: 7 (Latinos in American Society and Paperback - USED

9780520213357. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 372. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 372 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. Latinos in American Society and Culture 7. In June 1943 the city of Los... more

American Chronicles: Westside Chronicles:: Historic Stories of West Los Angeles (Paperback)

Los Angeles sprawled westward toward the sand and sea of Santa Monica Bay throughout the twentieth century as land-grant ranchos gave way to capitalists and promoters. Developers subdivided the coastal land into neighborhoods and communities: Santa... more

Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice (Paperback)

A shotgun blast of revisionism that aims to shatter all the comfortable myths of American political discourse. -- Los Angeles Times From the bestselling author of A People s History of the United States comes this selection of passionate honest and... more

Pre-Owned The Bad City in the Good War: San Francisco Los Angeles Oakland and San Diego (American West in the Twentieth Century) Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

Pioneers of Riverside County: The Spanish Mexican and Early American Periods (Paperback)

Riverside County encompasses more than two million people and most of the width of California from Los Angeles s eastern suburbs to the Arizona state line at the Colorado River. Historian Steve Loch captures the vanished past of this vast swath of... more

American Chronicles: Manhattan Beach Chronicles (Paperback)

An isolated ocean-view village on the dunes above South Santa Monica Bay Manhattan Beach grew with the arrival of railroads. This quaint upscale jewel of the Los Angeles County coast has been known for its cottage-style living the Metlox Pottery... more

Pre-Owned Inventing Autopia: Dreams and Visions of the Modern Metropolis in Jazz Age Los Angeles Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

American Crossroads: Spaces of Conflict Sounds of Solidarity : Music Race and Spatial Entitlement in Los Angeles (Series #36) (Edition 1) (Paperback)

In Spaces of Conflict Sounds of Solidarity Gaye Theresa Johnson examines interracial anti-racist alliances divisions among aggrieved minority communities and the cultural expressions and spatial politics that emerge from the mutual struggles of... more

The David J. Weber the New Borderlands H Imperial Metropolis: Los Angeles Mexico and the Borderlands of American Empire 1865-1941 (Paperback)

In this compelling narrative of capitalist development and revolutionary response Jessica M. Kim reexamines the rise of Los Angeles from a small town to a global city against the backdrop of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands Gilded Age economics and... more

Los Angeles mining review. Volume 32 1913 [Hardcover]

{Size: 22.59 x 28.94 cms} Lang: - English Vol: - Volume 32 Pages 428 Print on Demand. Reprinted in 2022 with the help of original edition published long back [1913]. This book is printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with... more

Black and Brown in Los Angeles : Beyond Conflict and Coalition (Edition 1) (Paperback)

Black and Brown in Los Angeles is a timely and wide-ranging interdisciplinary foray into the complicated world of multiethnic Los Angeles. The first book to focus exclusively on the range of relationships and interactions between Latinas/os and... more

Black and Brown in Los Angeles : Beyond Conflict and Coalition (Edition 1) (Hardcover)

Black and Brown in Los Angeles is a timely and wide-ranging interdisciplinary foray into the complicated world of multiethnic Los Angeles. The first book to focus exclusively on the range of relationships and interactions between Latinas/os and... more

Pre-Owned The Coveted Westside: How the Black Homeowners Rights Movement Shaped Modern Los Angeles (Paperback 9781647790349) by Jennifer Mandel

9781647790349. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 372. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 372 p. Urban West. The Coveted Westside explores the middle-class African American-led movement to challenge housing... more

Downey s Aerospace History: 1947-1999 (Paperback - Used) 0738569534 9780738569536

The city of Downey has been host to one of aerospace history s most sacred sites. For more than six decades men and women have gathered in this Los Angeles County town to make the dreams of tomorrow a reality--inventing the future and starting... more

Los Angeles mining review. Volume 32 1913

{Size: 21.59 x 27.94 cms} Lang: - English Vol: - Volume 32 Pages 428 Print on Demand. Reprinted in 2022 with the help of original edition published long back [1913]. This book is Printed in black & white sewing binding for longer life with Matt... more

Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits Race and Riot in Wartime L.A. (Paperback)

The notorious 1942 Sleepy Lagoon murder trial in Los Angeles concluded with the conviction of seventeen young Mexican American men for the alleged gang slaying of fellow youth Jose Diaz. Just five months later the so-called Zoot Suit Riot erupted as... more