1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910716431903321

Titolo

Claims allowed by the General Accounting Office. Communication from the President of the United States transmitting schedules of claims amounting to $ 538,199.39, allowed by the various divisions of the General Accounting Office, as covered by certificates of settlements. January 3, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : [U.S. Government Printing Office], , 1927

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (86 pages) : tables

Collana

House document / 69th Congress, 2nd session. House ; ; no. 611

[United States congressional serial set] ; ; [serial no. 8734]

Altri autori (Persone)

CoolidgeCalvin <1872-1933.>

Soggetti

Accounts payable

Claims

Legislative materials.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910815632703321

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

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.