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Continental Ambitions: Roman Catholics in North America: The Colonial Experience

Kevin Starr

In Continental Ambitions, Kevin Starr has achieved a fast-paced evocation of three Roman Catholic civilizations Spain, France, and Recusant England as they explored, evangelized, and settled the North American continent…

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Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003

Kevin Starr

In this extraordinary book, Kevin Starr–widely acknowledged as the premier historian of California–probes the possible collapse of the California dream and the beginning of another in the years 1990-2003.

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Continental Achievement, Volume 2: Roman Catholics in the United States– Revolution and the Early Republic

Kevin Starr

In this second volume of acclaimed historian Kevin Starr’s masterful work on Catholics in America, he picks up where he left off in his Continental Ambitions, which traced the stirrings…

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California (A History)

Kevin Starr

California has always been Shangri-la-the promised land of countless pilgrims in search of the American Dream. From the age of exploration to the age of Arnold, this is the story…

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Americans and the California Dream 1850-1915

Kevin Starr

Examining California’s formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had not only on Californians…

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Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915

Kevin Starr

Examining California’s formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had not only on Californians…

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Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era

Kevin Starr (State Librarian of California)

This second volume of Starr’s cultural history of the Golden State focuses on the turn-of-the-century years and the emergence of Southern California as a regional culture in its own right.

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The Octopus: A Story of California

Frank Norris

Based on an actual, bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880, this is the story of the waning days of the frontier West.

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Material Dreams: Southern California through the 1920s

Kevin Starr (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of San Francisco)

The third volume in Kevin Starr’s history of California, which traces the development of the state and its meaning for Americans in terms of the mythical American dream .

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Material Dreams: Southern California through the 1920s

Kevin Starr (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of San Francisco)

A study of the origins and development of the California dream, which covers an era of larger-than-life individuals, from movie stars to grandiose town planners and business tycoons. The author…

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Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California

Perhaps never in the time-honored American tradition of frontiering did ‘civilization’ appear to sink so low as in gold rush California. This title examines gold rush society and culture, to…

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Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California

Kevin Starr (Adjunct Professor of History, Adjunct Professor of History, University of San Francisco)

This book is the fourth in a series about Californian life and culture under the general title Americans and the California Dream. This book focuses on California during the Great…

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Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California

Kevin Starr (Adjunct Professor of History, Adjunct Professor of History, University of San Francisco)

In Endangered Dreams, Kevin Starr paints a portrait of California during the Great Depression that is both detailed and panoramic, offering a vivid look at the personalities and events that…

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Sick Surfers Ask the Surf Docs & Dr Geoff

Mark Renneker,Kevin Starr,Geoff Booth

Shows how to prevent surfing’s health problems. This title features diagnosing yourself and on-the-beach treatment techniques, and shows what to do when you can’t solve the problem yourself. It contains…

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Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963

Kevin Starr (University Professor and Professor of History, University Professor and Professor of History, University of Southern California)

The eighth volume written in one of the great ongoing works of American cultural history–Kevin Starr’s monumental Americans and the California Dream series

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Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance 1950-1963

Kevin Starr (University Professor and Professor of History, University Professor and Professor of History, University of Southern California)

The eighth volume written in one of the great ongoing works of American cultural history–Kevin Starr’s monumental Americans and the California Dream series

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Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950

Kevin Starr (University Professor in the Department of History, University Professor in the Department of History, University of Southern California)

The sixth volume in one of the great ongoing works of American cultural history–Kevin Starr’s monumental Americans and the California Dream–Embattled Dreams is a peerless work of cultural history following…

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Los Angeles. Portrait of a City

Kevin Starr,David L. Ulin

Explore the City of Angels from beaches to barrios, from tiny frontier town to glittering urban metropolis and entertainment capital of the world. This suitably sun-drenched tribute to Los Angeles…

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The Immigrant and the University: Peder Sather and Gold Rush California

Karin Sveen

Peder Sather was a scribe before he emigrated from Norway to New York in 1832. There he worked as a footman and a clerk at a lottery office before opening…

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I’ll Never Tell: Odyssey of a Rock & Roll Priest

Harry G Schlitt

A humorous, yet poignant social historic narrative of a priest grappling with the changing mores of both the Catholic church and contemporary life. Father Harry Schlitt encountered movie stars as…

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The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s

Kevin Starr (State Librarian of California; Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning, State Librarian of California; Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning, University of Southern Calfiornia California)

The Dream Endures offers a panoramic account of the Golden State during the turning-point years before America’s entry into World War II. Starr shows how good life prospered in California…

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The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s

Kevin Starr (State Librarian of California; Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning, State Librarian of California; Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning, University of Southern Calfiornia California)

In this fifth volume of Starr’s history of California life and culture, the focus is on the positive aspects of California life during the 1930s – especially how the state…

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Crisis in the Professions: The New Dark Age

Kevin T Leicht,Mary Fennell (C.V Starr Professor Emerita of Commerce, Organizations, And Entrepreneurship and Professor Emerita offf Sociology, Brown University, USA)

Crisis in the Professions presents a wide, panoramic view exploring the state of professional work in the 21st century. The authors raise profound issues that are affecting traditional pathways to…

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Crisis in the Professions: The New Dark Age

Kevin T Leicht,Mary Fennell (C.V Starr Professor Emerita of Commerce, Organizations, And Entrepreneurship and Professor Emerita offf Sociology, Brown University, USA)

Crisis in the Professions presents a wide, panoramic view exploring the state of professional work in the 21st century. The authors raise profound issues that are affecting traditional pathways to…

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Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty

Laura Randa King

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