David Samuel Torres-Rouff, "Before L.A.: Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894"
English | ISBN: 0300141238 | 2013 | 376 pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 0300141238 | 2013 | 376 pages | PDF | 5 MB
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.