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        The Urban West Series

        Series Editor: Eugene P. Moehring (UNLV) and Amy L. Scott (Bradley University)

        Urban West examines the development of primary and secondary cities in the Trans-Mississippi West including Texas and California. The series explores issues of class, race, ethnicity, gender, environment, suburbanization, municipal services, public works, community building, culture, and other relevant subjects within an urban context. All types of methodologies are welcome, but special attention will be given to those manuscripts offering important new insights, novel research approaches and sources, and comparative studies of multiple cities.

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        The Coveted Westside

        The Coveted Westside

        How the Black Homeowners' Rights Movement Shaped Modern Los Angeles

        by Jennifer Mandel

        ISBN: 9781647790349

        Pub Date: 29 March 2022

        Format: Paperback

        372 Pages

        The Coveted Westside explores the middle-class African American-led movement to challenge housing discrimination, gain equal access to twentieth-century Los Angeles, and ward off resegregation.  Black professionals, from actors to entrepreneurs to doctors, made the city’s distinguished neighborhoods of West Adams Heights in the 1940s and the Crenshaw area, View Park, View Heights, and Windsor Hillsin the postwar era hubs in the fight for fair housing.
        Cities and Nature in the American West

        Cities and Nature in the American West

        Edited by Char Miller

        ISBN: 9780874178241

        Pub Date: 28 September 2010

        Format: Paperback

        288 Pages

        A thoughtful examination of the processes that have shaped the contemporary West

        Sacramento and the Catholic Church

        Sacramento and the Catholic Church

        Shaping a Capital City

        by Steven Avella

        ISBN: 9780874177602

        Pub Date: 22 August 2008

        Format: Hardcover

        384 Pages

        This book examines the interplay between the city of Sacramento, California, and the Catholic Church from the city’s beginnings to the twenty-first century, to illustrate the sometimes hidden ways religious communities help form and sustain urban community.<br>
        Cities, Sagebrush, and Solitude

        Cities, Sagebrush, and Solitude

        Urbanization and Cultural Conflict in the Great Basin

        Edited by Dennis R. Judd and Stephanie L. Witt

        ISBN: 9780874179699

        Pub Date: 16 March 2015

        Format: Paperback

        288 Pages

        A pioneering study of rapid urban growth in the Great Basin
        City Dreams, Country Schemes

        City Dreams, Country Schemes

        Community and Identity in the American West

        Edited by Kathleen A. Brosnan and Amy L. Scott

        ISBN: 9780874178517

        Pub Date: 11 October 2013

        Format: Paperback

        344 Pages

        The visions that shaped development in the twentieth-century West

        Class and Gender Politics in Progressive-Era Seattle

        Class and Gender Politics in Progressive-Era Seattle

        by John C. Putman

        ISBN: 9780874177367

        Pub Date: 28 February 2008

        Format: Hardcover

        312 Pages

        This book traces the interplay of class, gender, and politics in progressive-era Seattle, Washington during the formative period of industrialization and the establishment of a national market economy. With the rapid westward expansion of the capitalist marketplace by the dawn of the 20th century, national political and economic pressures significantly transformed both city and region. Despite the region's vast natural resources, the West had a highly urbanized population, surpassing even that of the industrial Northeast. Westerners celebrated the region's wide-open spaces, and even though a large part of the West's economy was centered in the mines, fields, and forests, most chose to live in the city. Cities thus witnessed the intersection of class, gender, and political reform as residents struggled to <br>
        Earning Power

        Earning Power

        Women and Work in Los Angeles, 1880-1930

        by Eileen Wallis

        ISBN: 9780874178135

        Pub Date: 1 March 2010

        Format: Hardcover

        272 Pages

        Urbanism And Empire In The Far West, 1840-1890

        Urbanism And Empire In The Far West, 1840-1890

        by Eugene P. Moehring

        ISBN: 9780874175653

        Pub Date: 1 February 2004

        Format: Hardcover

        448 Pages

         A work of major significance by one of the West’s most respected historians
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