| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 345 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Lange, Dorothea.
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Taylor, Paul S. (Paul Schuster), 1895-1984.
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| SUBJECT |
Lange, Dorothea fast |
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Taylor, Paul S. (Paul Schuster), 1895-1984 fast |
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Women photographers -- United States -- Biography
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Social scientists -- United States -- Biography
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Rural poor -- United States -- History
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Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
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HISTORY -- United States -- General.
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Depressions
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Rural poor
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Social scientists
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Women photographers
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009038130 |
| ISBN |
9780520945890 |
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0520945891 |
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