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Before L.A.: Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894

By David Samuel Torres-Rouff

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
0300141238, 9780300141238
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5150528 bytes)
Series
The Lamar Series in Western History
Pages
376\376
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-11-07 16:23:38
State Local United States Americas History Histori

Description

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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