Before L.A. : race, space, and municipal power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894 /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Lamar series in western history.
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.