East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte

by Alex Sayf Cummings

Book Overview

East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries, from eighteenth-century Spanish colonization to twenty-first century globalization. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, creative nonfiction and original art, the book provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte, showing how interdisciplinary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978805489
• ISBN13: 9781978805484
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher