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

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Autor principal: Torres-Rouff, David Samuel, 1973-
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Col·lecció:Lamar series in western history.
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  • 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.