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California is the most powerful state because of these changes. From railroads, oil, and what the Great Depression and WWII created, California became the center of the military-industrial complex and the Golden Age of capitalism. Her population overtook New York, and Hollywood maintained cultural supremacy. It had bumps, along with many to come, but the political conflagrations were could always be juxtaposed by how powerful California had become.
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*Bibliography*
Paul Sabin, _Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900-1940_ (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005). amzn.to/2W16gtt
Paul J. P. Sandul, _California Dreaming: Boosterism, Memory, and Rural Suburbs in the Golden State_ (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2014). amzn.to/3FoLVnO
John Sedgwick, _From the River to the Sea: The Untold Story of the Railroad War That Made the West_ (New York: Avid Reader Press, 2021), audiobook. amzn.to/3DoBSi9
Kevin Starr, _Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era_ (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1985). amzn.to/2VPTbVX
Kevin Starr, _Material Dreams: Southern California through the 1920s_ (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1990). amzn.to/3oDZusG
Kevin Starr, _Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California_ (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1996). amzn.to/32ajETR
Kevin Starr, _The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s_ (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1997). amzn.to/3nnamft
Kevin Starr, _Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950_ (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2002). amzn.to/3CnerEz
Kevin Starr, _Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963_ (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2009). amzn.to/3qGyyve
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History of Albuquerque: youtu.be/nxqBDy827U0
Great Depression lecture: youtu.be/tI6V2vKiXcM
Chapters
0:00 intro and promo
2:26 internal colony to self-sufficiency
4:04 railroad population boom
5:01 infrastructure projects
8:00 SF earthquake
8:40 university system
10:17 Great Depression
13:22 WWII
16:11 postwar boom
17:10 suburbia
18:33 next episode
18:58 conclusion
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California is the most powerful state because of these changes. From railroads, oil, and what the Great Depression and WWII created, California became the center of the military-industrial complex and the Golden Age of capitalism. Her population overtook New York, and Hollywood maintained cultural supremacy. It had bumps, along with many to come, but the political conflagrations were could always be juxtaposed by how powerful California had become.
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See pinned comment and its replies for notes, responses, and errata
*Bibliography*
Paul Sabin, _Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900-1940_ (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005). amzn.to/2W16gtt
Paul J. P. Sandul, _California Dreaming: Boosterism, Memory, and Rural Suburbs in the Golden State_ (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2014). amzn.to/3FoLVnO
John Sedgwick, _From the River to the Sea: The Untold Story of the Railroad War That Made the West_ (New York: Avid Reader Press, 2021), audiobook. amzn.to/3DoBSi9
Kevin Starr, _Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era_ (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1985). amzn.to/2VPTbVX
Kevin Starr, _Material Dreams: Southern California through the 1920s_ (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1990). amzn.to/3oDZusG
Kevin Starr, _Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California_ (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1996). amzn.to/32ajETR
Kevin Starr, _The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s_ (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1997). amzn.to/3nnamft
Kevin Starr, _Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950_ (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2002). amzn.to/3CnerEz
Kevin Starr, _Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963_ (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2009). amzn.to/3qGyyve
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The California history playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjnwpaclU4wUD7y8912ViyAtGfraKi9ru
History of Albuquerque: youtu.be/nxqBDy827U0
Great Depression lecture: youtu.be/tI6V2vKiXcM
Chapters
0:00 intro and promo
2:26 internal colony to self-sufficiency
4:04 railroad population boom
5:01 infrastructure projects
8:00 SF earthquake
8:40 university system
10:17 Great Depression
13:22 WWII
16:11 postwar boom
17:10 suburbia
18:33 next episode
18:58 conclusion
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