Elsa Devienne, Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. xiii + 303pp. 39 figures. Bibliography. £26.99 hbk; £22.49 ebk.
(2025)
Journal Article
Hawksford White, S. (in press). Elsa Devienne, Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. xiii + 303pp. 39 figures. Bibliography. £26.99 hbk; £22.49 ebk. Urban history, https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963926825000288
Sam Hawksford White's Outputs (5)
Flood Photography and the Visual Component of Environmental American Studies (2025)
Journal Article
White, S. H. (2025). Flood Photography and the Visual Component of Environmental American Studies. New area studies, 4(3), https://doi.org/10.37975/NAS.78This article develops a new approach for using photographic sources that might be of interest to American Studies scholars whose research contributes broadly to environmental education. Over the past forty years of photographic scholarship, scientifi... Read More about Flood Photography and the Visual Component of Environmental American Studies.
Book Review: American Energy Cinema, ed. by Robert Lifset, Raechel Lutz, and Sarah Stanford-McIntyre (2023)
Digital Artefact
Hawksford White, S. (2023). Book Review: American Energy Cinema, ed. by Robert Lifset, Raechel Lutz, and Sarah Stanford-McIntyre. [Website Content]Opening paragraph:
The essays in American Energy Cinema set out to show how popular film can be an enlightening primary source for historians who are interested in how Americans have thought about and interpreted the role of energy in their lives an... Read More about Book Review: American Energy Cinema, ed. by Robert Lifset, Raechel Lutz, and Sarah Stanford-McIntyre.
High Waters: the 1937 Ohio-Mississippi Flood Disaster in Photographic Cultures (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hawksford White, S. (2023, April). High Waters: the 1937 Ohio-Mississippi Flood Disaster in Photographic Cultures. Paper presented at British Association for American Studies Annual Conference 2023, University of Keele
‘Malign Living Structures’: Functions of the Survey Image in Soil Erosion – A National Menace (2023)
Digital Artefact
Hawksford White, S. ‘Malign Living Structures’: Functions of the Survey Image in Soil Erosion – A National Menace. [Webpage]