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One of California’s oldest book publishers, The Huntington Library offers books on art, history, literature, and horticulture—as well as editions based on its own collection. Edited by Peter J. Westwick Blue Sky Metropolis Aerospace and Southern California Art is from Blue Sky Metropolis: Aerospace and Southern California, edited by Peter J. Westwick. Why did Southern California become the aerospace capital of the world? What were the consequences of this development for the region, for the nation, and for aerospace itself? Featuring essays by a multidisciplinary group of leading scholars and writers, this volume investigates the intersection of aerospace and Southern California through the lenses of anthropology, history of science and technology, labor, business, ethnicity and gender, architecture, and the environment. Peter J. Westwick is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Southern California and Director of the Aerospace History Project, an initiative of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. Western Histories, 4 Copublished by The Huntington Library Press and UC Press JUNE 278 pages, 6 x 9”, 24 b/w photographs California & the West/US History/Aerospace World cloth 978-0-87328-249-9 $44.95sc/£30.95 60 | University of California Press
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