TY  - BOOK
AU  - Torres-Rouff,David Samuel
TI  - Before L.A.: race, space, and municipal power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894 
T2  - The Lamar series in western history
AV  - F869.L857 T67 2013
U1  - 979.4/94 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Land settlement
KW  - California
KW  - Los Angeles
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Los Angeles (Calif.)
KW  - Population
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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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ER  -