1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452473903321

Autore

Torres-Rouff David Samuel <1973->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-300-15662-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Collana

The Lamar series in western history

Disciplina

979.4/94

Soggetti

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

Electronic books.

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNICASPAR0898919

Titolo

Arte perennat amor: riflessioni sull'intertestualità ovidiana : l'Ars amatoria / a cura di Luciano Landolfi, Paolo Monella

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bologna, : Pàtron, 2005

ISBN

8855528491

Descrizione fisica

171 p. ; 22 cm

Collana

Testi e manuali per l'insegnamento universitario del latino , . Nuova serie ; 89

Disciplina

871.01

Soggetti

Ovidio Nasone, Publio . Ars amatoria

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Atti del Seminario internazionale tenuto a Palermo nel 2005.