A Companion to Los Angeles
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"Every Los Angeles-based history, political science, and ethnic or urban studies instructor has been waiting for this anthology. ...The book's overarching aims serve to revisit and reenvision L.A.'s early history and prehistory, uncover long-term patterns obscured by earlier episodic treatments, and influence the shaping of the city's future." (Western Historical Quarterly, 2012) "Overall, this is a fascinating fractured account of various time periods, events, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and urban sprawl in a city that has become synonymous with the American Dream." (Philosophy &…mehr

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"Every Los Angeles-based history, political science, and ethnic or urban studies instructor has been waiting for this anthology. ...The book's overarching aims serve to revisit and reenvision L.A.'s early history and prehistory, uncover long-term patterns obscured by earlier episodic treatments, and influence the shaping of the city's future." (Western Historical Quarterly, 2012) "Overall, this is a fascinating fractured account of various time periods, events, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and urban sprawl in a city that has become synonymous with the American Dream." (Philosophy & Religion, November 2010) A Companion to Los Angeles is a unique study of America's second largest city, and the first Companion devoted to a single metropolis. The volume consists of 25 essays, each an original contribution by a writer or scholar, which collectively assess the best and most important work to date on the complex history of Los Angeles. The structure of the Companion allows readers to view the emergence of long-term patterns within the history of Los Angeles. Instead of organizing the essays around discrete, time-specific events, the editors focus on critical themes and broad multi-disciplinary topics which span different periods and generations, including demography, social unrest, politics, popular culture, architecture, and urban studies. Three photographic essays, along with the "contemporary voice" essays that conclude each section, complement the historiographic essays and provide a truly multi-dimensional view of the city. Together, the contributions constitute a lively and informed introduction to a history as fascinating as it is complex. The Companion is an invaluable resource for scholars, students, and a general readership eager to situate the history of greater Los Angeles within a larger body of metropolitan studies and the history of the United States itself.
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William Deverell is Professor of History at the University of Southern California and Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. Recent publications include A Companion to California History (with David Igler, 2008), Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past (2004), and A Companion to the American West (2004). He has also co-editor of Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles (with Greg Hise, 2005) and Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (with Tom Sitton, 2001). Greg Hise is Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He studies the economies, architecture, and planning of American cities. Hise is the author of Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis (1997), co-author of Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region (2000), and co-editor of Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles (2005), and Rethinking Los Angeles (1996).
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"Every Los Angeles-based history, political science, andethnic or urban studies instructor has been waiting for thisanthology. ...The book's overarching aims serve torevisit and reenvision L.A.'s early history and prehistory,uncover long-term patterns obscured by earlier episodic treatments,and influence the shaping of the city's future." (Western Historical Quarterly, 2012)

"Overall, this is a fascinating fractured account of varioustime periods, events, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and urbansprawl in a city that has become synonymous with the AmericanDream." (Philosophy & Religion, November 2010)

"In times past, books of this sort presented accepted interpretations arranged according to the alphabet. A Companion to Los Angeles, by contrast, presents cutting edge interpretations, systematically developed by leading scholars in the field. This valuable resource is not just a book about history. It is history itself, hence a significant step forward in the journey to identity by the City of Angels."
Kevin Starr, University of Southern California