Coast of Dreams

Coast of Dreams
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 802
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ISBN-10 : 9780307795267
ISBN-13 : 0307795268
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Coast of Dreams by : Kevin Starr

Download or read book Coast of Dreams written by Kevin Starr and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extraordinary book, Kevin Starr–widely acknowledged as the premier historian of California, the scope of whose scholarship the Atlantic Monthly has called “breathtaking”–probes the possible collapse of the California dream in the years 1990—2003. In a series of compelling chapters, Coast of Dreams moves through a variety of topics that show the California of the last decade, when the state was sometimes stumbling, sometimes humbled, but, more often, flourishing with its usual panache. From gang violence in Los Angeles to the spectacular rise–and equally spectacular fall–of Silicon Valley, from the Northridge earthquake to the recall of Governor Gray Davis, Starr ranges over myriad facts, anecdotes, news stories, personal impressions, and analyses to explore a time of unprecedented upheaval in California. Coast of Dreams describes an exceptional diversity of people, cultures, and values; an economy that mirrors the economic state of the nation; a battlefield where industry and the necessities of infrastructure collide with the inherent demands of a unique and stunning natural environment. It explores California politics (including Arnold Schwarzenegger’s election in the 2003 recall), the multifaceted business landscape, and controversial icons such as O. J. Simpson. “Historians of the future,” Starr writes, “will be able to see with more certainty whether or not the period 1990-2003 was not only the end of one California but the beginning of another”; in the meantime, he gives a picture of the place and time in a book at once sweeping and riveting in its details, deeply informed, engagingly personal, and altogether fascinating.

Los Angeles Magazine

Los Angeles Magazine
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 :
ISBN-13 :
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Download or read book Los Angeles Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles magazine is a regional magazine of national stature. Our combination of award-winning feature writing, investigative reporting, service journalism, and design covers the people, lifestyle, culture, entertainment, fashion, art and architecture, and news that define Southern California. Started in the spring of 1961, Los Angeles magazine has been addressing the needs and interests of our region for 48 years. The magazine continues to be the definitive resource for an affluent population that is intensely interested in a lifestyle that is uniquely Southern Californian.

The Human Shore

The Human Shore
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 9780226324296
ISBN-13 : 022632429X
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Human Shore by : John R. Gillis

Download or read book The Human Shore written by John R. Gillis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since before recorded history, people have congregated near water. But as growing populations around the globe continue to flow toward the coasts on an unprecedented scale and climate change raises water levels, our relationship to the sea has begun to take on new and potentially catastrophic dimensions. The latest generation of coastal dwellers lives largely in ignorance of the history of those who came before them, the natural environment, and the need to live sustainably on the world’s shores. Humanity has forgotten how to live with the oceans. In The Human Shore, a magisterial account of 100,000 years of seaside civilization, John R. Gillis recovers the coastal experience from its origins among the people who dwelled along the African shore to the bustle and glitz of today’s megacities and beach resorts. He takes readers from discussion of the possible coastal location of the Garden of Eden to the ancient communities that have existed along beaches, bays, and bayous since the beginning of human society to the crucial role played by coasts during the age of discovery and empire. An account of the mass movement of whole populations to the coasts in the last half-century brings the story of coastal life into the present. Along the way, Gillis addresses humankind’s changing relationship to the sea from an environmental perspective, laying out the history of the making and remaking of coastal landscapes—the creation of ports, the draining of wetlands, the introduction and extinction of marine animals, and the invention of the beach—while giving us a global understanding of our relationship to the water. Learned and deeply personal, The Human Shore is more than a history: it is the story of a space that has been central to the attitudes, plans, and existence of those who live and dream at land’s end.

Buried Dreams

Buried Dreams
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 132
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951D02106905S
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (5S Downloads)

Book Synopsis Buried Dreams by : Katherine Johnson

Download or read book Buried Dreams written by Katherine Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This booklet explores the story behind the rise and fall of a clam cannery on the Katmai Coast. It is a collection of historical essays and photographs that offer readers a lens through which they can view the life of workers in an Alaskan cannery during the first half of the 20th century.

Southern California Quarterly

Southern California Quarterly
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 496
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X030053109
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

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Download or read book Southern California Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Carolinas & the Georgia Coast

The Carolinas & the Georgia Coast
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Publisher : Hunter Publishing, Inc
Total Pages : 554
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ISBN-10 : 9781556508547
ISBN-13 : 1556508549
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Carolinas & the Georgia Coast by : Norman Renouf

Download or read book The Carolinas & the Georgia Coast written by Norman Renouf and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Charleston, Greenville, Kiawah Island, Hilton Head, Myrtle Beach, Savannah, Tybee Island, Augusta, Brunswick, Asheville, Golden Isles, Charlotte, Beaufort, Wilmington, Nags Head.

California Coast & Ocean

California Coast & Ocean
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 44
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ISBN-10 : UVA:35007007078482
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

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Download or read book California Coast & Ocean written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: