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Introduction : 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.
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.