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

By David Samuel Torres-Rouff

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300141238
• ISBN13: 9780300141238
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.4"