Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between 9781541742215, 2019041743, 9781541742192

If These Walls Could Talk: Los Angeles Dodgers : Stories from the Los Angeles Dodgers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box 9781623688431, 9781600789281

Since moving from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in 1958, the Dodgers have had an eventful—and frequently successful—history. F

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Making Los Angeles Home: The Integration of Mexican Immigrants in the United States 9780520960527

Making Los Angeles Home examines the different integration strategies implemented by Mexican immigrants in the Los Angel

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South Central Is Home: Race and the Power of Community Investment in Los Angeles 0804799814, 9780804799812

South Central Los Angeles is often characterized as an African American community beset by poverty and economic neglect.

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South Central Is Home: Race and the Power of Community Investment in Los Angeles 9781503609563

South Central Los Angeles is often characterized as an African American community beset by poverty and economic neglect.

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Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s 9780520935525

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 s

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Caught in the Storm 9781685856229

Badian tells the story of a village family in an African country under French rule. The family's father and the eld

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Making Music in Los Angeles: Transforming the Popular 9780520933835

In this fascinating social history of music in Los Angeles from the 1880s to 1940, Catherine Parsons Smith ventures into

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Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots 9780822387497

Theorizes race and nation in the cultural aftermath of the LA riots.

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Pocket Los Angeles 9788771489774

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William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles 9780520929012

William Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of southern California&#

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