Whitewashed Adobe
by William Deverell
Chronicling the rise of Los Angeles through shifting ideas of race and ethnicity, William Deverell offers a unique perspective on how the city grew and changed. Whitewashed Adobe considers six different developments in the history of the city--including the cementing of the Los Angeles River, the ou... More
A prosecutor fights a drug trafficker—and his own heroin addiction—in this thriller from a winner of the Dashiell Hammett Prize and Arthur Ellis Award. Lawyer Foster Cobb's objective is to bring down the mysterious Dr. Au, responsible for the drugs that flow through Vancouver. But under the pressu... More
Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past
A history of how powerful whites in Los Angeles, between the 1850s and World War II, managed to erase the presence of Mexicans from the city's history, from significant parts of its landscape, and from its power structure--a story with much to tell us about LA's contemporary ethnic arrangements. ... More
High Crimes
"A fast-moving swinging story of intrigue, suspense, action, and mayhem . . . [the] characters are all colorful rogues" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). In rugged, remote Newfoundland, a merry band of smugglers is carrying on a grand tradition, handed down over centuries. But the greatest of them all, a... More
Street Legal: The Betrayal
A Toronto lawyer defends a hit man as the Midnight Strangler stalks the city in a legal thriller based on the author's popular CBC drama Street Legal. Toronto, 1980. Three ambitious young lawyers are out to make a name for themselves with their own practice. Chuck Tchobanian and Leon Robinovitch ar... More
Platinum Blues
In this "fast-paced, wickedly funny" legal thriller, a small-town lawyer's case against a Los Angeles record label turns into a deadly media circus (Publishers Weekly). Living in the Northern California town of Foolsgold, widowed lawyer Oliver Gulliver is headed for a midlife crisis. It doesn't he... More
Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles
by William Deverell • Greg Hise
Most people equate Los Angeles with smog, sprawl, forty suburbs in search of a city-the great "what-not-to-do" of twentieth-century city building. But there's much more to LA's story than this shallow stereotype. History shows that Los Angeles was intensely, ubiquitously planned. The consequences... More
Metropolis in the Making
by William Deverell • Tom Sitton
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 sprawl and reliance on the automobile, its prominence as a financial and industrial center, and the rise of Hollywood as the film capital of the world. This collection of original e... More
Water and Los Angeles: A Tale of Three Rivers, 1900-1941
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Los Angeles rose to significance in the first half of the twentieth century by way of it... More
United States History (Holt Social Studies)
by William Deverell • Deborah White
Our Colonial Heritage (Beginnings-1783), A New Nation (1777-1800), The New Republic (1800-1855), The Nation Expands (1790-1860), The Nation Breaks Apart (1861-1877), A Growing America (1850-1914), The Beginning of Modern America (1867-1920), Boom Times and Challenges (1919-1945), Postwar America (19... More
A Companion to Los Angeles (Wiley Blackwell Companions To American History Ser.)
This Companion contains 25 original essays by writers and scholars who present an expert assessment of the best and most important work to date on the complex history of Los Angeles. The first Companion providing a historical survey of Los Angeles, incorporating critical, multi-disciplinary themes ... More
by William Deverell • Deborah Gray White
US History textbook... More
United States History: Civil War to the Present (Alabama)
United States History Alabama textbook... More
United States History and New York History: Beginnings to 1877
Offers complete coverage of United States history and provides students with document-based investigation and critical-thinking skills.... More
United States History Beginnings to 1877
Historians use paintings along with many other tools to help understand the past. As you study United States history, you too will learn how to use different historical sources to Read like a Historian.... More
United States History: Beginnings to 1877
As you study United States history, you too will learn how to use different historical sources to Read like a Historian. Historians work with different types of sources to understand and learn from history. Two categories of sources are primary and secondary sources. As you learn more about your wor... More
Holt United States History
Students will learn history from different types of sources, mainly primary and secondary sources.... More
Holt Social Studies: United States History
History textbook.... More
Holt McDougal United States History: Civil War to the Present
Studying U.S. history will be easy for you using this textbook. ... More
Holt California Social Studies: United States History, Independence to 1914
This textbook of Holt California Social Studies covers United States history from Independence to 1914 for students of Grade 6-8.... More
Shaped by the West, Volume 1: A History of North America to 1877
by William F. Deverell • Anne F. Hyde
Shaped by the West is a two-volume primary source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens. America's expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy, politics, race, freedom, and property. William Deverell and Anne F. Hyde provide a nuanced look at t... More
Shaped by the West, Volume 2: A History of North America from 1850