| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 361 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
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The Lamar series in western history |
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Lamar series in western history.
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-338) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Land settlement -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
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Ethnic relations
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Land settlement
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Population
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Race relations
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| SUBJECT |
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 19th century
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Population -- History -- 19th century
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century
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| Subject |
California -- Los Angeles
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780300156621 |
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0300156626 |
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