Before L.A. : race, space, and municipal power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894 / David Samuel Torres-Rouff. [electronic resource]
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TextSeries: Lamar series in western historyPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (376 pages) : illustrationsISBN: - 9780300156621 (e-book)
- 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
- 979.4/94 23
- F869.L857 T67 2013
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.