Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 361 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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The Lamar series in western history
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Lamar series in western history.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-338) and index. |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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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Land settlement -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century.
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Land settlement. |
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California -- Los Angeles. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
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1800-1899 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Added Title |
Before Los Angeles |
Other Form: |
Print version: Torres-Rouff, David Samuel, 1973- Before L.A 9780300141238 (DLC) 2013003567 (OCoLC)828265000 |
ISBN |
9780300156621 electronic book |
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0300156626 electronic book |
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9780300141238 |
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0300141238 |
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