Before L.A.
Subtitle: Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Sep 24, 2013
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780300141238
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.
Notes: Source title: Before L.A.: Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894 (The Lamar Series in Western History)