03218nam 2200685 450 991045247390332120200520144314.00-300-15662-610.12987/9780300156621(CKB)2550000001115086(OCoLC)861528402(CaPaEBR)ebrary10756465(SSID)ssj0000984200(PQKBManifestationID)12396174(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000984200(PQKBWorkID)11013751(PQKB)11247175(StDuBDS)EDZ0000175616(MiAaPQ)EBC3421271(DE-B1597)486359(OCoLC)858861483(DE-B1597)9780300156621(Au-PeEL)EBL3421271(CaPaEBR)ebr10756465(CaONFJC)MIL515388(EXLCZ)99255000000111508620130214h20132013 uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtccrBefore L.A. race, space, and municipal power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894 /David Samuel Torres-RouffNew Haven :Yale University Press,[2013]©20131 online resource (376 p.)The Lamar series in western historyBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-14123-8 1-299-84137-6 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.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.Lamar series in western history.Land settlementCaliforniaLos AngelesHistory19th centuryLos Angeles (Calif.)History19th centuryLos Angeles (Calif.)PopulationHistory19th centuryLos Angeles (Calif.)Race relationsHistory19th centuryLos Angeles (Calif.)Ethnic relationsHistory19th centuryElectronic books.Land settlementHistory979.4/94Torres-Rouff David Samuel1973-1055388MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452473903321Before L.A2488741UNINA