Ghost Metropolis: Los Angeles from Clovis to Nixon Main Menu Regimes: Ruling the Los Angeles Region from the Late Pleistocene to the 21st Century Places and Paths of Los Angeles Manna From Hell: Power and Politics from Region to World Power Shadows: Visual Cultures and Mass Media of a Regional and Global Power Segregated Diversity: The Geosocial Formation of Social Justice in the Late Twentieth Century Richard 37th: Nixon, Los Angeles, and World Power The American 1989: Los Angeles at the Climax of the 20th Century Narrative Essay Mapping the Past: Theory, Methods, Historiography Path Credits Root

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Mountains of books and articles about Los Angeles--or about people, institutions and themes covered in Ghost Metropolis--have been published over the last century, and even earlier.  Mountains more have been published within the major topic areas of Ghost Metropolis, from the fine arts to spatial sociology, presidential politics, to international relations and the history of Hollywood.  The many communities of inquiry that this work relies upon, and engages with, each deserve their own recognition. And the reader has a right to wonder where on those mountainous landscapes of human thought does Ghost Metropolis stand?

A great metropolis is an intersection of all topics the world has ever known, so it stands to reason that the study of a great metropolis will require many communities of inquiry.  The trans-disciplinary attitude of Ghost Metropolis is to ignore the boundaries and yet rely on the best scholarship or writings in each of the knowledge communities.  The discursive traditions of history, urban studies, political science, art history, sociology, geography, international relations, ethnic studies, film and media studies are each in themselves very powerful, capable of great analytic or interpretive accomplishments.   Like any traveler in good faith, I have learned to speak the languages of different discursive communities as best I can, to adopt their ways and practices.  My goal is not to resolve differences between modes of inquiry, but to build upon their separate accomplishments to reach a new way of seeing the past.
 

This page has paths:

  1. Bibliographies Filmographies, Gazetteer, Timelines, Index, Study Guides Phil Ethington
  2. Ghost Metropolis: Los Angeles from Clovis to the Age of Nixon and Reagan Phil Ethington

Contents of this path:

  1. Alpha Order Total Bibliography for Ghost Metropolis. Last Updated 24 JUne 2013
  2. Navigating the Labyrinth of Los Angeles Historiography
  3. Bibliography for Ab Urbe Condita
  4. Bibliography for Places and Social Landscapes
  5. Fine Arts Bibliography
  6. Bibliography for White Shadows
  7. Bibliography for Richard 37th
  8. Bibliography for Manna From Hell Path
  9. Bibliography for The American 1989
  10. Bibliography for Uprisings, Rebellions, Lynch Mobs, and Protests
  11. Social Science of Segregation Bibliography
  12. Ethington and Collaborators Bibliography
  13. Bibliography for Target Tokyo