MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02013cam a2200337 i 4500
001 2013003567
003 DLC
005 20140426080443.0
008 130214s2013 ctuabc b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013003567
020 $a9780300141238 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $an-us-ca
050 00 $aF869.L857$bT67 2013
082 00 $a979.4/94$223
100 1 $aTorres-Rouff, David Samuel,$d1973-
245 10 $aBefore L.A. :$brace, space, and municipal power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894 /$cDavid Samuel Torres-Rouff.
264 1 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c2013.
300 $axiii, 361 pages :$billustrations, maps, portraits ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aThe Lamar series in western history
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : 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.
651 0 $aLos Angeles (Calif.)$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aLos Angeles (Calif.)$xPopulation$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aLos Angeles (Calif.)$xRace relations$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aLos Angeles (Calif.)$xEthnic relations$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aLand settlement$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles$xHistory$y19th century.