Before L.A. : race, space, and municipal power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894 / / David Samuel Torres-Rouff
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| Autore: |
Torres-Rouff David Samuel <1973->
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| Titolo: |
Before L.A. : race, space, and municipal power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894 / / David Samuel Torres-Rouff
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| Pubblicazione: | New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , [2013] |
| ©2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 979.4/94 |
| Soggetto topico: | Land settlement - California - Los Angeles - History - 19th century |
| Soggetto geografico: | 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 | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Before L.A |
| ISBN: | 0-300-15662-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910790432403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Lamar series in western history.