City of inmates [electronic resource] : conquest, rebellion, and the rise of human caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 / by Kelly Lytle Hernández.

"Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian Kelly Lytle Hernández unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black disappearance drove the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles. In this telling, which spans from the Spanish colonial era to the outbreak of th...

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