La ruée vers le sable. Une histoire environnementale des plages de Los Angeles au XXe siècle
- Submitting institution
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University of Northumbria at Newcastle
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 25456105
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Publications de la Sorbonne
- ISBN
- 9791035105242
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This book provides the first full account of the development of Los Angeles’s coastal landscape over the 20th century. The coastline was divided up among 10 different administrative entities (cities, county, state) and did not come under a single administration’s authority. Research for the book therefore necessitated visits to 13 individual archival institutions to consult 45 different manuscript, oral history and photographic collections. In addition, Devienne conducted 14 oral interviews and systematically examined 29 national and local newspapers, magazines and journals for information. She accumulated this material while residing in France, doing multiple long and short stays across California.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
- The history of Los Angeles’ urban development usually centres on its sprawling inland suburbs. This book shifts the focus to the city’s geographic edge—the Pacific coastline—and proposes a radical re-reading of the city’s growth and relationship to the environment. Using sources ranging from engineering reports to popular literature, it recounts the formidable beach modernization campaign that transformed L.A. into one of the world’s greatest coastal metropolises. By integrating environmental, social and cultural history, it uncovers how the coastline was constructed—both literally and discursively—, and how this major engineering project affected the lives of ordinary city-dwellers and their relationship to nature.