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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 ou... More

A prosecutor fights a drug trafficker—and his own heroin addiction—in this thriller from a winner of the Dashiell Hammett Prize and Arthur Ellis Award. Lawyer Foster Cobb’s objective is to bring down the mysterious Dr. Au, responsible for the drugs that flow through Vancouver. But under the pressu... More

A history of how powerful whites in Los Angeles, between the 1850s and World War II, managed to erase the presence of Mexicans from the city's history, from significant parts of its landscape, and from its power structure--a story with much to tell us about LA's contemporary ethnic arrangements. ... More

“A fast-moving swinging story of intrigue, suspense, action, and mayhem . . . [the] characters are all colorful rogues” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). In rugged, remote Newfoundland, a merry band of smugglers is carrying on a grand tradition, handed down over centuries. But the greatest of them all, a... More

A Toronto lawyer defends a hit man as the Midnight Strangler stalks the city in a legal thriller based on the author’s popular CBC drama Street Legal. Toronto, 1980. Three ambitious young lawyers are out to make a name for themselves with their own practice. Chuck Tchobanian and Leon Robinovitch ar... More

In this “fast-paced, wickedly funny” legal thriller, a small-town lawyer’s case against a Los Angeles record label turns into a deadly media circus (Publishers Weekly). Living in the Northern California town of Foolsgold, widowed lawyer Oliver Gulliver is headed for a midlife crisis. It doesn’t he... More

Most people equate Los Angeles with smog, sprawl, forty suburbs in search of a city-the great "what-not-to-do" of twentieth-century city building. But there's much more to LA's story than this shallow stereotype. History shows that Los Angeles was intensely, ubiquitously planned. The consequences... More

Los Angeles came of age in the 1920s. The great boom of that decade gave shape to the L.A. of today: its vast suburban sprawl and reliance on the automobile, its prominence as a financial and industrial center, and the rise of Hollywood as the film capital of the world. This collection of original e... More

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Los Angeles rose to significance in the first half of the twentieth century by way of it... More

Our Colonial Heritage (Beginnings-1783), A New Nation (1777-1800), The New Republic (1800-1855), The Nation Expands (1790-1860), The Nation Breaks Apart (1861-1877), A Growing America (1850-1914), The Beginning of Modern America (1867-1920), Boom Times and Challenges (1919-1945), Postwar America (19... More

This Companion contains 25 original essays by writers and scholars who present an expert assessment of the best and most important work to date on the complex history of Los Angeles. The first Companion providing a historical survey of Los Angeles, incorporating critical, multi-disciplinary themes ... More

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Offers complete coverage of United States history and provides students with document-based investigation and critical-thinking skills.... More

Historians use paintings along with many other tools to help understand the past. As you study United States history, you too will learn how to use different historical sources to Read like a Historian.... More

As you study United States history, you too will learn how to use different historical sources to Read like a Historian. Historians work with different types of sources to understand and learn from history. Two categories of sources are primary and secondary sources. As you learn more about your wor... More

Students will learn history from different types of sources, mainly primary and secondary sources.... More

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Studying U.S. history will be easy for you using this textbook. ... More

This textbook of Holt California Social Studies covers United States history from Independence to 1914 for students of Grade 6-8.... More

Shaped by the West is a two-volume primary source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens. America’s expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy, politics, race, freedom, and property. William Deverell and Anne F. Hyde provide a nuanced look at t... More

Shaped by the West is a two-volume primary source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens. America’s expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy, politics, race, freedom, and property. William Deverell and Anne F. Hyde provide a nuanced look at t... More