Metropolis in the making
Subtitle: Los Angeles in the 1920s
By: edited by Tom Sitton and William Deverell.
Contributors: Sitton, Tom, 1949-; Deverell, William Francis.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: City planning -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.; Nineteen twenties.; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century.; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS / ix; title: PREFACE / Xi; title: Introduction; title: Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920o; title: Jules Tygiel / i; title: PART ONE * METROPOLITAN SPACES / II; title: 1. Industry and Imaginative Geographies; title: Greg Hise / 13; title: 2. Mulholland Highway and the Engineering; title: Culture of Los Angeles in the 192os; title: Matthew W Roth / 45; title: 3. The Quest for Independence: Workers in the Suburbs; title: Becky M. Nicolaides / 77; title: 4. Sunshine and the Open Shop: Ford and; title: Darwin in 1920s Los Angeles; title: Mike Davis / 96; title: 5. "Another World": Work, Home, and; title: Autonomy in Blue-Collar Suburbs; title: Nancy Quam-Wickham / i23; title: PART TWO * METROPOLITAN IDENTITIES / 143; title: 6. The Star of Ethiopia and the NAACP,; title: Pageantry, Politics, and the Los Angeles; title: African American Community; title: Douglas lamming / 145; title: 7. Making Mexico in Los Angeles; title: Douglas Monroy / I61; title: 8. The View from Spring Street:; title: White-Collar Men in the City of Angels; title: Clark Davis / 179; title: PART THREE * FAITH IN THE METROPOLIS / 199; title: 9. "Practically Every Religion Being Represented"; title: Michael E. Engh, S.J. / 201; title: 10. Fighting Like the Devil in the City of Angels:; title: The Rise of Fundamentalist Charles E. Fuller; title: Philip Goff / 220; title: PART FOUR* METROPOLITICS / 253; title: 11. How Hollywood Became Hollywood:; title: Money, Politics, and Movies; title: Steven j Ross / 255; title: 12. My America or Yours? Americanization and; title: the Battle for the Youth of Los Angeles; title: William Deverell / 277; title: 13. Did the Ruling Class Rule at City Hall in 192os Los Angeles?; title: Tom Sitton / 302; title: 14. Behind the Scenes: Bronco Billy and the Realities; title: of Work in Open Shop Hollywood; title: Laurie Pintar / 319; title: PART FIVE * THE END: METROPOLITAN FINALE / 339; title: 15. Selling Eternity in 1920s Los Angeles; title: David Charles Sloane / 341; title: CONTRIBUTORS / 36I; title: INDEX / 365.