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  1. Ghost Metropolis: Los Angeles from Clovis to the Age of Nixon and Reagan Phil Ethington

Contents of this path:

  1. Pluto's Basement: The Los Angeles Basin
  2. Regime I: Megafauna Regis, 2.5 Million BP to 13,000 BP
  3. Regime II -- Clovis Conquest: First Peoples and Mass Extinction, From 13,000 to 10,000 Years Ago
  4. Regime III -- Arcadia: The Hokan-Chumash Era, from 10,200 BP to Year 1 of the Common Era
  5. Regime IV -- Aztec Aristocracy: 1 Common Era to 1769
  6. Yaangna, Ancient Center of the Los Angeles Basin
  7. Very Ancient Roads: The Indigenous-Spanish Centering of the Los Angeles Basin
  8. Regime V -- Spanish Franciscan Theocracy, 1769 to 1822
  9. Regime VI -- Latifundia Mexicanas, 1822 to 1848
  10. Downtown LA: Inscribing Diversity in the Spanish Core, 1781-1906
  11. Water and Power: The LA River Monopoly of the City of Los Angeles From Pueblo to City
  12. Eastside Story: African-American Central Ave From Biddy Mason to Watts, 1781-1959
  13. Regime VII -- La Conviviencia Inestable, 1848 to 1881.
  14. Railway Nodes: Transcontinental Railway Stations, 1870s-1939
  15. Regime VIII -- U.S. Industrial Empire on the Porfirian Borderland, 1881-1940
  16. Annexation and the Regional Centrality of Los Angeles City, 1880s-1953
  17. Los Angeles City-Centrality: The Hierarchical Municipalization of LA County, 1880s-1920s
  18. Los Angeles: Capital City of the US-Mexico Borderlands, 1880-1920s
  19. Art and Industrial Oligarchy, 1880-1915
  20. The Muybridge Moment: Pre-Cinematic Visual Arts to 1895
  21. Cinema Proper: From the Kinetograph to the Cinématographe, 1891-1895
  22. From Vienna to Chicago to Los Angeles: The Formation of Southern California Modernism, 1890s-1920s
  23. Manna From Hell: Petroleum and the Inscription of Angeleno World Power, 1890s-1930s
  24. Edward L. Doheny: Borderland Oil Baron, 1890s-1920s
  25. From David Belasco's Broadway to DeMille at the Lasky Barn, 1893-1915
  26. The Rise and Fall of Regional Mass Transit: Pacific Electric "Red Cars": 1901-1961
  27. Movies Migrate to Los Angeles: The Warners and the Mayers, 1904-1917
  28. Taking Root: Mapping Motion Picture Production in the 1910s
  29. The Diverse Origins of Motion Picture Production: Sex, Race, Ideology, and purpose, 1890s-1920s
  30. The Mexican Revolution and Battles for Free Speech on the Streets of Los Angeles, 1907-1914
  31. J. Paul Getty: From USC to Oxford to Sutton Place.
  32. Oil of the People, by the People, and for the People: Petropolitical Schemes
  33. Progressives, Socialists, Synchromists in Revolutionary Los Angeles
  34. "When I Get Big": Richard the Nascent Coeur de Leon, 1913-1924
  35. Inscribing Aeronautic Production, 1912-1930
  36. The Chihuahua Connection: Doheny, Fall, and the Counterrevolution, 1910-1929
  37. Industrial-Residential Groundwork: Inscribing the Boom of the 1920s
  38. Hell's Angel: Howard Hughes, 1920s-1930s
  39. Los Ángeles contra La Raza Cósmica: U.S.-Mexico Petropolitics and the Counterrevolution of the 1920s
  40. The Hollywood "Sign," 1923-1980s
  41. The Rise of Ronald Reagan, Actor, 1920s-1940s
  42. The Nixon Market Milieu: circa 1930
  43. The Fall of the Doheny Oil Dynasty, 1921-1931
  44. Taking Place: Mexico and the Counterrevolution in Los Angeles in the 1920s
  45. Radio Broadcasting and the Rise of Networked Urbanism, 1920s-1930s
  46. The Bohemian Left in the 1920s
  47. Tarzana of the Apes: American Pulp Fascism from Chicago to the San Fernando Valley, 1912-1920s
  48. American Pulp Fascism: Tarzan, Birth of a Nation, and the Ku Klux Klan, 1912-1930s
  49. White Shadows in the South Seas, 1928
  50. Migrating to the Screen: Racialization of Bodies in Visual Space
  51. New York City's Media Power: Financial and Creative Control of Hollywood in the Classic Era, 1920s-1930s
  52. Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbor Map Series, 1924-2001
  53. Labor of Stars: Artists, Artisans, and the Contested Visual Workplace of the 1920s-1930s
  54. Populism and Fascism in 1930s Hollywood
  55. Fascist and American Air War Doctrine, 1920-1930s
  56. Ralph's Groceries: Residential and Retail Expansion in the 1930s
  57. Enter Julius Shulman and John Entenza: Arts & Architecture in the 1930s-1940s
  58. Hollywood’s White Hunters: Colonizing Africa and American Mass Media, 1929-1939
  59. The Air War Crisis of 1936-1939
  60. Regime IX -- U.S. Media-Industrial-Military: 1940-1992
  61. Concentration Camps and Lynch Mobs on the Home Front: "Total War" in Los Angeles, 1939-1945
  62. The Furies: Los Angeles, Air Power, and the Allied Victory in World War II, 1940-1945
  63. Aerial Attacks, Blackouts and Hollywood Deceptions, 1941-45
  64. The Doolittle Raid of 18 April 1942
  65. Made With Hate: Mobilization, Round-ups and Lynch Mobs in Los Angeles, 1941-1945
  66. Joshi Teishin-tai and Rosie the Riveter: Civilians at Risk in the the War Plants of the U.S., Japan, and Germany, 1942-1945
  67. Aerial Bombing with B-17s in Europe, 1942-1944
  68. U.S. Planning to Burn Civilians Alive with Napalm (Jellied Gasoline) Incendiary Weapons, 1942-1944
  69. Americans turn Terrorist: Curtis LeMay, Carl Spaatz, and the RAF Terror Campaign
  70. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, 1943-44
  71. EXCURSUS: Dalton Trumbo's Screenplay for Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
  72. The Rise of Ronald Reagan, the Politician, 1940s-1980s
  73. "We Kill'em with Fil'm": Target Tokyo, Narrated by Ronald Reagan (OWI-USAAF First Motion Picture Unit, 1945)
  74. Urban Ovens: Burning Japanese Civilians on an Industrial Scale, 1944-5
  75. The War Crime, 1944-45
  76. EXCURSUS: ROBERT S. MCNAMARA'S FLAWED WAR CRIMES CONFESSION
  77. War Birds Coming Home To Roost: The Repressed Image of Los Angeles as Aerial Target
  78. Hollywood's Contribution to the Area-Bombing Cover-up, 1942-1945
  79. The Hollywood-Office of War Information Cover-Up, 1944-1945
  80. Historical Indictment
  81. Arteries of Privilege and Inequality: Pico-Whittier, Lakewood-Rosemead, Sunset, and Sepulveda
  82. Crossroads of the LA Metropolis: The Four-Level Interchange and Bunker Hill, 1930s-1960s
  83. Victor Gruen and the Shopping "Centers" of Automobility, 1940s-1950s
  84. Suburbia, Automobility, and Metropolitan Space, 1930s-1950s: FOOTNOTES
  85. Broadcast Television Before Cable: New York and Los Angeles, 1948-1970s
  86. Blinding Race: Television in the Civil Rights Era, 1948-1965
  87. From Paris to New York City to San Francisco and Los Angeles: Duchamp's Beatnik Successors: 1912-1966
  88. The Art of Rebellion in Cold War Los Angeles, 1950-1992
  89. Undefended Cities
  90. Segregated Diversity: Los Angeles County, 1940-2000
  91. END NOTES TO THE ORIGINAL HELL'S ANGELS SECTION:
  92. Wartime State-Capitalist and Postwar Anti-Communist Home-Building: Fritz Burns, 1940s-1960s
  93. Arteries of Privilege and Inequality: Pico-Whittier, Lakewood-Rosemead, Sunset, and Sepulveda
  94. The Racial Shaping of Cold War Suburban Space, 1950s
  95. Space Station Los Angeles: Aerospace Capital of the Cold War, 1945-1992
  96. Ramo-Wooldridge, Systems Engineering, and the Information Age
  97. Vengeance Weapon: How Nazi SS Major Wernher von Braun Became a U.S. Space Exploration Hero
  98. Western Development Division, 409 E. Manchester Blvd in Inglewood, 1950s
  99. The Whiteness of Landed Wealth, 1940-1990
  100. Encirclement: Los Angeles City and Suburbanization, 1950s-1960s
  101. Vice President Nixon At Home and Abroad, 1953-59
  102. Beat Dada: Ed Kienholz, 1952-1962
  103. Galleries of La Cienaga, 1958-1969
  104. Case Study #22: 1960
  105. Excursus: Shakespearean Nixon and Cervantean Reagan
  106. The Winter of Nixon's Discontent: The Stolen Presidential Election of 1960
  107. Nixon's Caribbean Crossroads, November 1962
  108. Revolt of the Generals?: Seven Days in May and Dr. Strangelove, 1963-4
  109. Emancipation, Extremism, and Nixon at the Hinge of Fate, 1963
  110. California's Reversal of Civil Rights: The Referendum Repeal of the Rumford Fair Housing Law in 1964
  111. Springtime for Nixon and Reagan, 1964
  112. The Speech: Reagan's "Time For Choosing," 1964
  113. Reaganism: The Triumph of Los Angeles-Branded New Right Repression, 1964-1989
  114. Nixon Wins Control of the Republican Party, 1965
  115. Decolonizing American Television: 1965-1990s
  116. Nixon, Reagan, Extremism, and the Watt Rebellion, 1965
  117. Burning Decks, Sinking Ships, and Heavy Bombers: Race and Reaction, 1966-67
  118. Corporate Origins and Destination of the New Hollywood, 1966-1980s
  119. New Art Spaces after Watts and the Blowouts: Samella Lewis and ASCO, 1965-1978
  120. Photography's Ironic Arrival as Fine Art: Ed Ruscha and Robert Heinecken, 1961-1970
  121. The Art of Feminism and Women of the LA Avant Garde, circa 1975
  122. Sex, Violence, and Sexual Violence in the New Hollywood, 1967-1991
  123. Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich, and the Artistic Apotheosis of the New Hollywood, 1971-1980
  124. The LA and New York Cinematic Rebellions, 1970s-1990s
  125. Conceptualism and the the CalArts Mafia, 1971-1980
  126. The Contradictory Mayoralty of Tom Bradley in the Age of Reagan, 1973-1993
  127. Scarface, Wall Street, and Cinema in Reagan's 1980s
  128. Reaganism and Rebellion: The American Uprising of 1988-1992
  129. The Gates Era Police State: The LAPD's Military Occupation of Los Angeles in the 1980s-90s
  130. Los Angeles and the Postmodern Turn, 1980s-1990s
  131. Rap and Rebellion: The Manifesto for the Uprising, 1982-1992
  132. The Los Angeles Uprising of 1992
  133. Regime X -- Reform-Neoliberal, 1992 to the Present