In part a tour of California as a virtual laboratory for refining the circulation of capital, and in part an investigation of how the state's literati, with rar

Essays on California's economy, culture, and literature from the 1880s to the 1920s, showing how rural places were made over in the image of capital. They exami

Urban Novel, Crime Fiction

“How African-American artists and intellectuals sought greater liberty in Paris while also questioning the extent of the freedoms they so publicly praised.”