Before L.A. : race, space, and municipal power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894

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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

Author:

Torres-Rouff, David Samuel, 1973-

ISBN:

9780300156621

Personal Author:

Torres-Rouff, David Samuel, 1973-

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 pages) : illustrations.

Series:

The Lamar series in western history

Lamar series in western history.

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.

Local Note:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Subject Term:

Land settlement -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century.

Geographic Term:

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:

Electronic books.

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