
Material Dreams
Southern California through the 1920s
Kevin Starr(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 2. January 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
496 pages
978-0-19-507260-0 (ISBN)
Description
The third of Kevin Starr's monumental studies of the origins and development of the California dream covers the decade, which perhaps glittered the most brightly in the history of the Golden State - the 1920s. This was the era of colourful, larger-than-life individuals - from movie stars to evangelists to grandiose town planners; the era of Valentino, as well as that of William Ellsworth Smyth, tireless crusader for the irrigation of the desert. It was also the period in which the characteristics of Los Angeles' vital culture were established.
Reviews / Votes
`Material Dreams is a splendid achievement: impressively researched, expertly argued and nicely varied ... (Starr) has taken a sprawling, recalcitrant subject, at once encrusted with cliche and dogged by obscurity, and made it vivid and comprehensible.'Boston Sunday Globe `Kevin Starr has written an engaging, eccentric history of Southern California in the '20s ... It is richly researched, informative, fun to read and the writing is bright (with substance, pace and vigor).'
Los Angeles Times
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
24 pp plates
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
792 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-507260-0 (9780195072600)
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07/1990
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Person
Kevin Starr is the author of the series Americans and the California Dream, including the previously published Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915, and Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era. The next installment is The Dream Endures: California through the Great Depression.