Mulholland, Catherine:William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles
- Livres de poche 2001, ISBN: 9780520217249
Edition reliée
UK,8vo wraps,no dw/dj - as issued,paperback original,p/back 1st edn. [Paperback/softback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title.Paperbacks … Plus…
UK,8vo wraps,no dw/dj - as issued,paperback original,p/back 1st edn. [Paperback/softback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,but paperback/softback originals are published prior to any other format.] FINE/FINE.Appears unread due to lack of spine/backstrip creasing.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.B/w photographic and coloured background to upper wrap,yellow and white text reviews of author's previous work SPANKY to rear wrap; and minimal shelf-wear to edges. Dw/dj design differs from the paperback wraps with colour art photographic upper wrap and b/w author photograph to rear wrap.Top+ fore-edges clean,as are the contents.UK,8vo p/back original,1st edn, 1-417pp includes 3pp publisher's adverts to rear. The cruel and heartless hand of the urban planner forced fourteen-year -old Billy March and his family to leave their home in the city and settle in the suburban new town of Invicta Cross.Initial prospects for a fresh start soon dashed,Billy watched as his family was destroyed by petty-minded and hostile neighbours.Though he managed to befriend a young girl as damaged as himself,he experienced pain that changed his life forever. Ten years later,as Invicta Cross is voted Britain's Favourite New Town,a smart young married couple move into the area.Glamorous and wealthy, they're instantly popular with the neighbours.Then the vicious pranks begin.As one neighbour after another goes missing,no one suspects that the perfect couple in Balmoral Close might know something more than they're telling.Then a suspicious reporter sets out to discover the truth. 'Psychoville' is a suburban nightmare that delves behind the net curtains to reveal the truth about housewives, bloodstains and the damage you can inflict with a Morphy Richards iron. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.WARNER BOOKS,1995., 5, Trade Paperback. Book and Outer Cover are in Excellent Condition, Like New. 299 pgs. HISTORY LOCAL > ONTARIO > TORONTO,Overall Rating: EXCELLENT CONDITION, LIKE NEW. SHIPS FROM ONTARIO. Title: Toronto's Gril Problem, The Perils and Pleasures of the City, 1880 - 1930. Author: Strange, Carolyn Publisher: University of Toronto Press Incorporated, Toronto, ON, 1995ISBN: 0-8020-7203-8 With the turn of the century came increased industrialization and urbanization, and in Toronto one of the most visible results of this modernization was the influx of young, single women to the city. They came seeking work, independence, and excitement, but they were not to realize these goals without contention.Carolyn Strange examines the rise of the Toronto 'working girl,' the various agencies that 'discovered' her, the nature of 'the girl problem' from the point of view of moral overseers, the various strategies devised to solve this 'problem,' and lastly, the young women's responses to moral regulation. The 'working girl' seemed a problem to reformers, evangelists, social investigators, police, the courts, and journalists - men, mostly, who saw women's debasement as certain and appointed themselves as protectors of morality. They portrayed single women as victims of potential economic and sexual exploitation and urban immorality. Such characterization drew attention away from the greater problems these women faced: poverty, unemployment, poor housing and nutrition, and low wages.In the course of her investigation, Strange suggests fresh approaches to working-class and urban history. Her sources include the census, court papers, newspaper accounts, philanthropic society reports, and royal commissions, but Strange also employs less conventional sources, such as photographs and popular songs. She approaches the topic from a feminist viewpoint that is equally sensitive to the class and racial dimensions of the 'girl problem,' and compares her findings with the emergence of the working woman in contemporary United States and Great Britain.The overriding observation is that Torontonians projected their fears and hopes about urban industrialization onto the figure of the working girl. Young women were regulated from factories and offices, to streetcars and dancehalls, in an effort to control the deleterious effects of industrial capitalism. By the First World War however, their value as contributors to the expanding economy began to outweigh fear of their moral endangerment. As Torontonians grew accustomed to life in the industrial metropolis, the 'working girl' came to be seen as a valuable resource., University of Toronto Press, 1995, 5.5, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. xiii, 242 pages, illustrations (some colour), music; 32 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., June 6 to September 4, 2000, the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Md., October 1 to December 10, 2000, and the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, N.C., February 3 to April 23, 2001. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures explores complex American attitudes toward the Near East--as revealed in collected paintings, interior design, and multiple vernacular forms--at the formative moment of industrialization and the crystallization of a truly mass culture. Published to coincide with the multimedia exhibition that opens at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and travels to the Walters Art Gallery and the Mint Museum of Art, this catalogue considers how urban, mercantile, Protestant America represented the Islamic world of the Middle East and North Africa in ways that say more about itself than the foreign culture. This gorgeously illustrated volume first looks at the use of Orientalist stereotypes by some of the country's most important high art painters of the nineteenth century: Frederic Edwin Church's treatment of the exotic terrain through a lens of deep religiosity a more cosmopolitan reading of the harem girl by John Singer Sargent the perfumed alternative to industrial capitalism conjured in the landscapes and market scenes of Samuel Colman and Louis Comfort Tiffany and interpretations of the Orient as emancipatory by Ella Pell, the only major woman Orientalist. The book next traces the popularization of Orientalism in the decorative arts (including a few treasures from Olana, Church's Moorish-style home on the Hudson), on Broadway, and in Hollywood, as well as through advertising that linked consumer products with visual suggestions of exotic sexuality and through cultural objects, such as the Shriners' fez. The generous color plates show both an innocent romanticization of the Orient and a darker, heavily eroticized version of Oriental 'otherness.' An excellent chronology and bibliography, in addition to expert essays by both Americanists and Islamicists, give context to absorbing images." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Roots and others, by Oleg Grabar; A million and one nights : Orientalism in America, 1870-1930, by Holly Edwards; "The garments of instruction from the wardrobe of pleasure": American Orientalist painting in the 1870s and 1880s, by Brian T. Allen; Speaking back to Orientalist discourse at the World's Columbian Exposition, by Zeynep C elik; The sheik: instabilities of race and gender in transatlantic popular culture of the early 1920s, by Steven C. Caton; Catalogue of the exhibition, by Holly Edwards.. 1st. Paperback. NEW. Folio. Collectible., Princeton University Press, 2000, 6, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000. xxi, 411 pages, [32] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "William Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of southern California's history. Mulholland, a self-taught engineer, was the chief architect of the Owens Valley Aqueduct--a project ranking in magnitude and daring with the Panama Canal--that brought water to semi-arid Los Angeles from the lush Owens Valley. The story of Los Angeles's quest for water is both famous and notorious: it has been the subject of the classic yet historically distorted movie Chinatown, as well as many other accounts. This first full-length biography of Mulholland challenges many of the prevailing versions of his life story and sheds new light on the history of Los Angeles and its relationship with its most prized resource: water. Catherine Mulholland, the engineer's granddaughter, provides insights into this story that family familiarity affords, and adds to our historical understanding with extensive primary research in sources such as Mulholland's recently uncovered office files, newspapers, and Department of Water and Power archives. She scrutinizes Mulholland's life--from his childhood in Ireland to his triumphant completion of the Owens Valley Aqueduct to the tragedy that ended his career. This vivid portrait of a rich chapter in the history of Los Angeles is enhanced with a generous selection of previously unpublished photographs. / Catherine Mulholland is author of Calabasas Girls: An Intimate History (1976) and The Owensmouth Baby: The Making of a San Fernando Town (1987)." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible., University of California Press, 2000, 5<
