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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Wide open spaces: Rural communities and the making of metropolitan California, 1870--1940 Abstract: This dissertation explores the development of rural communities in California from the end of the Gold Rush to the eve of World War II and their relationship with the metropolitan areas they inhabited. Elaborating upon William Cronon's understanding of rural-urban interchange, I focus on two communities as case studies: Petaluma, situated forty miles north of San Francisco and home to early industrial egg production, and Glendora, thirty miles east of downtown Los Angeles in Southern California's citrus belt. By the beginning of the twentieth century, these communities were resilient centers of culture and economy that influenced metropolitan economic development. As they developed over time, both places created unique identities through the creation of promotional communal cultures, which helped assert their interests while constructing local hierarchies of power on the basis of class, race, and location. Eventually these communal cultures, no longer connected solely to economic gain, became performed and ritualized in the community, as well as recognized in the larger metropolitan sphere. |
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