| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 345 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue : uncommon ground -- From Belleau Wood to Berkeley -- The magnet of the West -- Labor on the land -- Far West factories -- A new social order -- Women on the breadlines -- An American exodus -- Conclusion : can the subaltern speak? |
| Summary |
California on the Breadlines is the compelling account of how Dorothea Lange, the Great Depression's most famous photographer, and Paul Taylor, her labor economist husband, forged a relationship that was private--they both divorced spouses to be together--collaborative, and richly productive. Lange and Taylor poured their considerable energies into the decade-long project of documenting the plight of California's dispossessed, which in 1939 culminated in the publication of their landmark book, American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. Jan Goggans blends biography, literature, and history to re. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Lange, Dorothea.
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Lange, Dorothea. |
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Taylor, Paul S. (Paul Schuster), 1895-1984.
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Taylor, Paul S. (Paul Schuster), 1895-1984. |
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Women photographers -- United States -- Biography.
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Women photographers. |
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United States. |
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Biographies.
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Social scientists -- United States -- Biography.
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Social scientists. |
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Rural poor -- United States -- History.
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Rural poor. |
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History. |
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Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
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Depressions. |
| Chronological Term |
1929 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Goggans, Jan. California on the breadlines. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010 9780520266216 (DLC) 2009038130 (OCoLC)445479363 |
| ISBN |
9780520945890 (electronic book) |
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0520945891 (electronic book) |
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9780520266216 |
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0520266218 |
| Standard No. |
9786612697715 |
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