Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Cultural and Historical Origins
• Chapter 2. The Rise and Decline of the Mexican Plaza
• Chapter 3. From Ciudad to City
• Chapter 4. Homelands Remembered
• Chapter 5. Revolution and Public Space
• Chapter 6. Reforming Culture and Community
• Chapter 7. Parades, Murals, and Bulldozers
• Chapter 8. Politics and Preservation
• Chapter 9. The Persistence of Memory
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

Promotional Information

The first in-depth study of Los Angeles through the lens of its original core at the old city Plaza

About the Author

William David Estrada is Curator of California and American History and Chair of the History Department for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Reviews

"This is a much needed, much anticipated book. The entire history of Los Angeles can be told, as William Estrada has done in this superb study, through careful investigation of the city's historic Plaza. The city and its countless stories of human drama, significance, and meaning come alive in this careful, exacting investigation. The very heart of Los Angeles at last has its biographer." William Deverell, Director, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West