A Connected Metropolis: Los Angeles Elites and the Making of a Modern City, 1890–1965
Autor Maxwell Johnsonen Limba Engleză Hardback – iul 2023
At the turn of the twentieth century, the politics of connection revolved around initiatives to tie Los Angeles to other places both tangibly and metaphorically. Elites built tangible connections to secure, among other things, the water that irrigated the citrus farms of Los Angeles, the capital that propelled its businesses, and the people who migrated from the Midwest to buy its houses. To build metaphorical connections that located the city amid transcontinental and trans-Pacific movements, elites themselves often transcended nearby borders and pursued connections at will. Los Angeles stood as a focal point for elite ambitions, a place with a more ambivalent relationship to external connections. The true story of Los Angeles’s rise lies in the spectacular visions and rambunctious activism of a group of elite men dedicated to transforming a remote frontier town into a global metropolis.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781496224323
ISBN-10: 1496224329
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 10 Illustrations, index
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.69 kg
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 1496224329
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 10 Illustrations, index
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.69 kg
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
Maxwell Johnson is a humanities instructor at Park Tudor School in Indianapolis.
Cuprins
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “The Damnedest Place”
Snapshot: Los Angeles, 1890
1. Command Post or Outpost
2. Borderlands Fortress
Snapshot: Los Angeles, 1920
3. “Virtually on the Edge of a Desert”
4. The Perils of Exceptionalism
Snapshot: Los Angeles, 1940
5. “The Center of Japanese Intrigue and Activity in America”
Coda: “Where They All Are Headed”
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “The Damnedest Place”
Snapshot: Los Angeles, 1890
1. Command Post or Outpost
2. Borderlands Fortress
Snapshot: Los Angeles, 1920
3. “Virtually on the Edge of a Desert”
4. The Perils of Exceptionalism
Snapshot: Los Angeles, 1940
5. “The Center of Japanese Intrigue and Activity in America”
Coda: “Where They All Are Headed”
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
"This is an important contribution to literature on Los Angeles, and to scholarship in urban history as a whole."—Cole Manley, Western Historical Quarterly
“Pithy and insightful, Maxwell Johnson’s A Connected Metropolis offers a captivating—and often surprising—exploration of how urban elites transformed the remote frontier town of Los Angeles into a global metropolis in the span of a century.”—Edward D. Melillo, author of Strangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection
“Maxwell Johnson’s skill as a researcher shines throughout A Connected Metropolis. Although primarily directed at historians of Los Angeles and California, urban historians will find much value in his analysis of elite urban actors and will be able to use this as a model for studying elite politics in other American cities.”—Jessica M. Kim, author of Imperial Metropolis: Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865–1941
Descriere
A Connected Metropolis describes Los Angeles’s rise in the early twentieth century as catalyzed by a series of upper-class debates about the city’s connections to the outside world.