California Exposures: Envisioning Myth and History
A brilliant California history, in word and image, from an award-winning historian and a documentary photographer.This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” This indelible quote from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance applies especially well to California, where legend has so thoroughly become fact that it is visible in everyday landscapes. Our foremost historian of the West, Richard White, never content to print the legend,” collaborates here with his son, a talented photographer, in excavating the layers of legend built into California's landscapes. Together they expose the bedrock of the past, and the history the…
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Weitere Autoren: White, Jesse Amble (Fotogr.)
- ISBN: 978-0-393-24307-9
- EAN: 9780393243079
- Produktnummer: 34249514
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 23'119 KB
- Abbildungen: 109 color illustrations; 9 maps
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Richard White is the Margaret Byrne Professor Emeritus of American History at Stanford University. He is the author of many acclaimed books in American western and environmental history, including Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Parkman Prize, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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