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Before L.A. : race, space, and municipal power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894
Title
Before L.A. : race, space, and municipal power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894 / David Samuel Torres-Rouff.
ISBN
0300156626
9780300156621
0300141238
9780300141238
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Copyright Notice Date
©2013
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 361 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
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Summary
David Torres-Rouff significantly expands borderlands history by examining the past and original urban infrastructure of one of America's most prominent cities; its social, spatial and racial divides and boundaries; and how it came to be the Los Angeles we know today.
Variant and related titles
Before Los Angeles
EBSCOhost eBook collection, Yale University Press.
Other formats
Print version: Torres-Rouff, David Samuel, 1973- Before L.A. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 07, 2019
Series
The Lamar series in western history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-338) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Finding the past
A pueblo by the Porciuncula, 1781-1840
"Members of the same family with ourselves" : intercultural civic ideals, identities, and spaces, 1840-1855
"Impossible to ascertain with any degree of certainty" : choosing between cooperation and confrontation, 1855-1856
"Upon this thread hangs the welfare of our city" : society, space, and public policy, 1857-1861
Judging "an 'Ethiopian by his skin'" : politics, violence, and the power of racialized place, 1862-1872
"Looking across the gulf of immeasurable distance" : the divergent paths of Los Angeles's places and peoples, 1870-1894
Conclusion: "A story hidden behind every crumbling wall" : history and memory in Los Angeles.
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Genre/Form
Electronic book.
History.
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