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

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Torres-Rouff, David Samuel, 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Colección:Lamar series in western history.
Temas:
1800-1899
Land settlement > California > Los Angeles > History > 19th century.
Colonisation intérieure > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Ethnic relations
Land settlement
Population
Race relations
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.
California > Los Angeles
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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