Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past Tapa dura - 2004

University of California Press, 2004. Hardcover. Very Good. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Berkeley. 2004. University Of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0520218698. 349 pages. hardcover. . keywords: History California Los Angeles Mexican American. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Chronicling the rise of Los Angeles through shifting ideas of race and ethnicity, William Deverell offers a unique perspective on how the city grew and changed. Whitewashed Adobe considers six different developments in the history of the city–including the cementing of the Los Angeles River, the outbreak of bubonic plague in 1924, and the evolution of America's largest brickyard in the 1920s. In an absorbing narrative supported by a number of previously unpublished period photographs, Deverell shows how a city that was once part of Mexico itself came of age through appropriating–and even obliterating–the region's connections to Mexican places and people. Deverell portrays Los Angeles during the 1850s as a city seething with racial enmity due to the recent war with Mexico.… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

University Of California Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Signed first edition, hardcover, full number line. Signed by author on full title page, an as new copy with no flaws. Unclipped DJ protected with Brodart cover. 8vo, bookseller #001701.

University of California Press, 2004-06-03. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!