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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Torres-Rouff, David Samuel, 1973-

Series:

Lamar series in western history.

The Lamar series in western history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land settlement--California--Los Angeles--History--19th century.

Land settlement.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--History--19th century.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Population--History--19th century.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Race relations--History--19th century.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Ethnic relations--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-300-15662-6

OCLC:

861528402