California Vieja: Culture and Memory in a Modern American Place / Edition 1

by Phoebe S. Kropp

Overview

"This is a rich and learned volume that has a story to tell to those seeking to understand contemporary Southern California."—David Johnson, managing editor of the Pacific Historical Review

"Engagingly written and well researched, California Vieja is an intriguing, persuasive examination of the politics of memory and the built environment in southern California."—Vicki Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520258044
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	08/19/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	8.76(w) x 5.92(h) x 0.84(d)

About the Author

Phoebe S. Kropp is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

1	Los Dias Pasados : tales from nineteenth-century California	19
2	The road : El Camino real and mission nostalgia	47
3	The fair : Panama-California exposition and regional ambitions	103
4	The home : Rancho Santa Fe and suburban style	159
5	The market : Olvera Street and urban space	207
6	Conclusion : the trouble with red-tile roofs	261

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"Excellent and well-researched. . . . Enthralling."—Folklore

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