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New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]

1 online resource (376 pages) : illustrations

ISBN 9780300156621 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780300141238

The Lamar series in western history

Print version: Torres-Rouff, David Samuel. Before L.A. : race, space, and municipal power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013] xiii, 361 pages The Lamar series in western history ISBN 9780300141238

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.

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