{"product_id":"a-connected-metropolis-los-angeles-elites-and-the-making-of-a-modern-city-1890-1965-hardback-9781496224323","title":"A Connected Metropolis; Los Angeles Elites and the Making of a Modern City, 1890–1965 (Hardback) 9781496224323","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Connected Metropolis\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLos Angeles Elites and the Making of a Modern City, 1890–1965\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMaxwell Johnson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496224323\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 July 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e352 pages, 10 Illustrations, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.664 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"This is an important contribution to literature on Los Angeles, and to scholarship in urban history as a whole.\"-Cole Manley, \u003ci\u003eWestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Connected Metropolis\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent addition to the city’s growing historiography.\"-Lawrence Culver, \u003ci\u003eCalifornia History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Pithy and insightful, Maxwell Johnson’s \u003ci\u003eA Connected Metropolis\u003c\/i\u003e offers a captivating-and often surprising-exploration of how urban elites transformed the remote frontier town of Los Angeles into a global metropolis in the span of a century.”-Edward D. Melillo, author of \u003ci\u003eStrangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Maxwell Johnson’s skill as a researcher shines throughout \u003ci\u003eA Connected Metropolis\u003c\/i\u003e. Although primarily directed at historians of Los Angeles and California, urban historians will find much value in his analysis of elite urban actors and will be able to use this as a model for studying elite politics in other American cities.”-Jessica M. Kim, author of \u003ci\u003eImperial Metropolis: Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865–1941\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Connected Metropolis\u003c\/i\u003e Maxwell Johnson describes Los Angeles’s rise in the early twentieth century as catalyzed by a series of upper-class debates about the city’s connections to the outside world. By focusing on specific moments in the city’s development when tensions over Los Angeles’s connections, or lack thereof, emerged, Johnson ties each movement to two or three contemporary figures who influenced the debates at hand. The elites’ previous efforts to secure nationwide and global connections for Los Angeles were wildly successful following World War II. As a result, the city became a landing spot for African American migrants, Cambodian and Laotian refugees, and Mexican and Central American immigrants. Johnson argues that the city’s history is more defined by external relationships than previously understood, and those relationships have given the history of the city more continuity than originally recognized.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e At the turn of the twentieth century, the politics of connection revolved around initiatives to tie Los Angeles to other places both tangibly and metaphorically. Elites built tangible connections to secure, among other things, the water that irrigated the citrus farms of Los Angeles, the capital that propelled its businesses, and the people who migrated from the Midwest to buy its houses. To build metaphorical connections that located the city amid transcontinental and trans-Pacific movements, elites themselves often transcended nearby borders and pursued connections at will. Los Angeles stood as a focal point for elite ambitions, a place with a more ambivalent relationship to external connections. The true story of Los Angeles’s rise lies in the spectacular visions and rambunctious activism of a group of elite men dedicated to transforming a remote frontier town into a global metropolis.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: “\u003cbr\u003eThe Damnedest Place”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Snapshot: Los Angeles, 1890\u003cbr\u003e 1. Command Post or Outpost\u003cbr\u003e 2. Borderlands Fortress\u003cbr\u003e Snapshot: Los Angeles, 1920\u003cbr\u003e 3. “\u003cbr\u003eVirtually on the Edge of a Desert”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Perils of Exceptionalism\u003cbr\u003e Snapshot: Los Angeles, 1940\u003cbr\u003e 5. “\u003cbr\u003eThe Center of Japanese Intrigue and Activity in America”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Coda: “\u003cbr\u003eWhere They All Are Headed”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599906140440,"sku":"9781496224323","price":38.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-connected-metropolis-los-angeles-elites-and-the-making-of-a-modern-city-1890-1965-hardback-9781496224323","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}