| Description |
xiii, 213 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series, 1074-598X |
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Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series. 1074-598X
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. "The triumph of our species" : a literary analysis of three Steinbeck novellas -- 2. Old California and the West -- From Sketches of eighteenth-century America / Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1912) -- From The sunset land, or, The great Pacific slope / John Todd (1870) -- From Captain Bonneville / Washington Irving (1895) -- From "The first emigrant train to California" / John Bidwell (1890-1891) -- From The sunset land, or The great pacific slope / John Todd (1890) -- 3. Land ownership -- From "Agrarian justice" / Thomas Paine (1797) -- From Letters from an American farmer / Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1912) -- From California : a study of American character / Josiah Royce (1886) -- From The Homestead Act of 1862 -- From "The lands of the United States" in The Life of Henry George / Henry George, Jr. (1900) -- From The Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act (1937) -- From Ill fares the land / Carey McWilliams (1942) -- |
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4. The vagrant farm worker : homeless in Paradise -- From The life and adventures of James P. Beckwourth ; written from his own dictation by T. D. Bonner / James P. Beckwourth (1856) -- From Scenery of the plains, mountains and mines : or a diary kept upon the overland route to California, by way of the Great Salt Lake... in the years 1850, '51, '52 and '53 / Franklin Langworthy (1855) -- From The resources of California / John S. Hittell (1868) -- From California... a study of American character / Josiah Royce (1886) -- From "California : character of the population" in Roughing It / Mark Twain (1892) -- From Migratory labor in American agriculture : report of the President's Commission on Migratory labor (1951) -- From The journal of a working man in John N. Webb, The migratory-casual worker (1937) -- From The hobo : the sociology of the homeless man / Nels Anderson (1923) -- |
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5. Losers of the American dream -- From One thousand homeless men / Alice Willard Solenberger (1910) -- From The hobo / Nels Anderson (1923) -- From Ill fares the land / Carey McWilliams (1942) -- From Newcomers and nomads in California / William T. Cross and Dorothy E. Cross (1937) -- From An interview with Brigadier Luther Smith of Birmingham, Alabama (1996) -- |
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6. The American dream in a Mexican setting -- From A glimpse of Old Mexico / James H. Wilkins (1901) -- From An American girl in Mexico / Elizabeth Visere McGary (1904) -- From On the Mexican highlands / William Seymour Edwards (1907) -- From Mexico with comparisons and conclusions / A.A. Graham (1907) -- From Mexico as I saw it / Mrs. Alec Tweedie (1911) -- From The real Mexico / H. Hamilton Fyfe (1914) -- From The social revolution in Mexico / Edward Alsworth Ross (1923) -- Index. |
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Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. Of mice and men -- Sources.
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Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
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Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. Red pony -- Sources.
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Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. Pearl -- Sources.
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| ISBN |
0313299668 alkaline paper |
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9780313299667 alkaline paper |
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