Author: Los Angeles Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Annual Report of the Library Department of the City of Los Angeles, California, for the Year Ending ..
Author: Los Angeles Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Annual Report of the Controller of the City of Los Angeles, California for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30 ...
Author: Los Angeles (Calif.). Office of ControllerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion
Author: Emily K. AbelPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813543827
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Though notorious for its polluted air today, the city of Los Angeles once touted itself as a health resort. After the arrival of the transcontinental railroad in 1876, publicists launched a campaign to portray the city as the promised land, circulating countless stories of miraculous cures for the sick and debilitated. As more and more migrants poured in, however, a gap emerged between the city’s glittering image and its dark reality. Emily K. Abel shows how the association of the disease with “tramps” during the 1880s and 1890s and Dust Bowl refugees during the 1930s provoked exclusionary measures against both groups. In addition, public health officials sought not only to restrict the entry of Mexicans (the majority of immigrants) during the 1920s but also to expel them during the 1930s. Abel’s revealing account provides a critical lens through which to view both the contemporary debate about immigration and the U.S. response to the emergent global tuberculosis epidemic.
Annual Report of the City Auditor of the City of Los Angeles, California for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30 ...
Author: Los Angeles (Calif.). Auditor's OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
The Frontier of Leisure
Author: Lawrence CulverPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199891923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Tracing the history of Southern California from the late 19th century through the late 20th century, this book reveals how this region did much more than just create lavish resorts like Santa Catalina Island and Palm Springs - it literally remade American attitudes towards leisure.
California at War
Author: Diane M. T. NorthPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700626468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
World War I propelled the United States into the twentieth century and served as a powerful catalyst for the making of modern California. The war expanded the role of the government and enlarged the presence of private citizens’ associations. Never before had so many Californians taken such a dynamic part in community, state, national, and international affairs. These definitive events unfold in California at War as a complex, richly detailed historical narrative. Historian Diane M. T. North not only writes about the transformative battlefield and nursing experiences of ordinary Californians, but also documents how daily life changed for everyone on the home front—factory and farm workers, housewives and children, pacifists and politicians. Even before the United States entered the war, California’s economy flourished because its industrialized agriculture helped feed British troops. The war provided a boost to the faltering Hollywood film industry and increased the military’s presence through the addition of Army and Navy training camps and air fields, ship construction, contracts to local businesses, coastal defenses, and university-sponsored scientific research. In these stories, North traces the roots of California’s global stature. The war united Californians in common humanitarian goals as they supported war-related charities, funded the nation’s war machine, conserved food, and enforced rationing. Most citizens embraced wartime restrictions with patriotic zeal and did not foresee the retreat into suspicion, loyalty oaths, and unwarranted surveillance, all of which set the stage for the beginnings of the modern security state. California at War raises important questions about what happens when a nation goes to war. This book illuminates the legacy of World War I for all Americans.
Resources in Education
Author: Left in the Dust
Author: Karen PiperPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466891688
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
An intensely personal story crossed with a political potboiler, Left in the Dust is a unique and passionate account of the city of Los Angeles's creation, cover-up and inadequate attempts to repair a major environmental catastrophe. Owens River, which once fed Owens Lake, was diverted away from the lake to supply the faucets and sprinklers of Los Angeles. The dry lakebed now contains a dust saturated with toxic heavy metals, which are blown from the lake and inhaled by unsuspecting citizens throughout the Midwest, causing major health issues. Karen Piper, one of the victims who grew up breathing that dust, reveals the shocking truth behind this tragedy and examines how waste and pollution are often neglected to encourage urban growth, while poor, non-white, and rural areas are forgotten or sacrificed.
American Municipal Progress
Author: Charles ZueblinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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