Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures

Book Overview

This special issue of American Quarterly focuses on Los Angeles as an emblematic site through which the scholarship of American studies can be examined. As a city shaped by eighteenth-century European colonization, nineteenth-century U.S. territorial expansion, and twentieth-century migration, Los Angeles has come to embody both the hopes and fears of Americans looking to the future. It is a city in which the local is deployed in complex...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801882087
• ISBN13: 9780801882081
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 to 22 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary