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Author Torres-Rouff, David Samuel, 1973-

Title Before L.A. : race, space, and municipal power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894 / David Samuel Torres-Rouff.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
2013

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Description 1 online resource (376 pages) : illustrations.
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Series The Lamar series in western history
Lamar series in western history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references 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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Land settlement -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 19th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Population -- History -- 19th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Torres-Rouff, David Samuel. Before L.A. : race, space, and municipal power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013] xiii, 361 pages The Lamar series in western history 9780300141238 (DLC) 2013003567
ISBN 9780300141238
9780300156621 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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