Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic

In Material Dreams, Starr turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history, the 1920s, when some two million Americans migrated to Califor

This second volume in Kevin Starr's passionate and ambitious cultural history of the Golden State focuses on the turn-of-the-century years and the emergence of

Although frequently recognized as home to well-known personalities, Great Neck is also notable for the conspicuous way it transformed itself from a Gentile comm

This volume deals with the years of World War II and after. In the 1940s California changed from a regional centre into the dominant economic, social and cultur