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Before L.A.
Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894
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English
Published/Copyright:
2013
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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. It is a fascinating study of how an innovative intercultural community developed along racial lines, and how immigrants from the United States engineered a profound shift in civic ideals and the physical environment, creating a social and spatial rupture that endures to this day.
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David Samuel Torres-Rouff is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Merced. He lives in Merced, CA.
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction. Finding the Past
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CHAPTER 1. A Pueblo by the Porciuncula, 1781–1840
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CHAPTER 2. “Members of the Same Family with Ourselves”
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CHAPTER 3. “Impossible to Ascertain with Any Degree of Certainty”
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CHAPTER 4. “Upon This Thread Hangs the Welfare of Our City”
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CHAPTER 5. Judging “an ‘Ethiopian by His Skin’ ”
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CHAPTER 6. “Looking Across the Gulf of Immeasurable Distance”
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Conclusion. “A Story Hidden Behind Every Crumbling Wall”
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Notes
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Index
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September 24, 2013
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9780300156621
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352
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25 b-w illus.
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