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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790432403321
• Autore: Torres-Rouff David Samuel <1973->
• 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; 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.