COMPANION TO LOS ANGELES

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 and innovative scholarship
Features essays from a range of disciplines, including history, political science, cultural studies, and geography
Photo essays and ‘contemporary voice’ sections combine with traditional historiographic essays to provide a multi-dimensional view of this vibrant and diverse city
Essays cover the key topics in the field within a thematic structure, including demography, social unrest, politics, popular culture, architecture, and urban studies

William Deverell is Professor of History at the University of Southern California and Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. He is a historian of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century American West. His recent publications include A Companion to California History (co-editor, Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past (2004), and A Companion to the American West (editor, Wiley-Blackwell, 2004). He has also co-edited Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles (2005), Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (2001), and The West in the History of the Nation (2000).
Greg Hise is Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He studies the economies, architecture, and planning of United States cities. He is the author of Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis (1997), co-author of Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region (2000), and co-editor of Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles (2005), and Rethinking Los Angeles (1996).

List of Plates.
Notes on Contributors.
Introduction (William Deverell and Greg Hise, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and University of Nevada, Las Vegas).
Part I The Long History of a Global City
1. The Border Crossed US (Matt Gainer, photographer, Los Angeles).
2. Born Global: From Pueblo to Statehood (Louise Pubols, Oakland Museum of California).
3. Race, Place, and Ethnicity in the Progressive Era (Stephanie Lewthwaite, University of Nottingham).
4. Between "White Spot" and "World City": Racial Integration and the Roots of Multiculturalism (Scott Kurashige, University of Michigan).
5. Contemporary Voice: Where You From? (Susan Straight, University of California, Riverside).
Part II Social Flashpoints
6. Social Flashpoints (Eric Avila, University of California, Los Angeles).
7. The Anti-Chinese Massacre of 1871 and Its Strange Career (Victor Jew, Cornell University).
8. Disposable People, Expendable Neighborhoods (George J. Sanchez, University of Southern California).
9. Gridlock of Rage: The Watts and Rodney King Riots (Scott Saul, University of California, Berkeley).
10. Contemporary Voice: Here, Now, I (Angela Oh, Western Justice Center Foundation).
Part III Politics and Economies
11. Ab urbis condita: Regional Regimes since 13,000 Before Present (Philip J. Ethington, University of Southern California).
12. Crown Jewels: Infrastructure and Growth (Steven P. Erie and Scott MacKenzie; University of California, San Diego and University of California, Davis).
13. Consolidation, Fragmentation, and New Fiscal Federalism (Tom Hogen-Esch, California State University, Northridge).
14. Contemporary Voice: Contradictions, Coalitions, and Common Ground (Manuel Pastor, University of Southern California).
Part IV Cultures and Communities
15. Cultures and Communities (Leo Braudy, University of Southern California).
16. "A Most Advantageous Spot on the Map": Promotion and Popular Culture (Anthea Hartig, National Trust for Historic Preservation).
17. Tijuana and the Borders of Race (Josh Kun, University of Southern California).
18. Counterculture (Dave McBride, Oxford University Press, New York).
19. Cinema and the Making of a Modern City (Edward Dimendberg, University of California, Irvine).
20. Contemporary Voice: Looking for God in the City of Angels (Matt Gainer, photographer, Los Angeles).
Part V Landscapes and Place
21. Situating Stories: What Has Been Said About Landscape and the Built Environment (Greg Hise, University of Nevada, Las Vegas).
22. America’s Playground: Recreation and Race (Lawrence Culver, Utah State University).
23. Landscapes of Health and Rejuvenation (David Sloane, University of Southern California).
24. Excerpts from the San Gabriel River Series (Robbert Flick, artist, Southern California).
25. Contemporary Voice: Thickets of Density, Swaths of Emptyness (Christopher Hawthorne, architecture critic, Los Angeles Times).
Index.