Before L.A.
Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894
1st Edition
Published on 24. September 2013
352 pages
978-0-300-15662-1 (ISBN)
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Finding the Past
- CHAPTER 1. A Pueblo by the Porciuncula, 1781-1840
- CHAPTER 2. "Members of the Same Family with Ourselves": Intercultural Civic Ideals, Identities, and Spaces, 1840-1855
- CHAPTER 3. "Impossible to Ascertain with Any Degree of Certainty": Choosing Between Cooperation and Confrontation, 1855-1856
- CHAPTER 4. "Upon This Thread Hangs the Welfare of Our City": Society, Space, and Public Policy, 1857-1861
- CHAPTER 5. Judging "an 'Ethiopian by His Skin' ": Politics, Violence, and the Power of Racialized Place, 1862-1872
- CHAPTER 6. "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
- Index
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- F
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