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Indian labor was vital to the early economic development of the Los Angeles region. This first volume in the series Before Gold: California under Spain and Mexico explores for the first time Native contributions to early Southern California.

Focuses on Junipero Serra's religious identity and his relations with Native peoples. The authors intersperse their narrative with new and accessible translations of many of Serra's letters and sermons, which allows his voice to be heard in a more direct and engaging fashion.

How do intimate relationships reveal, reflect, enable, or enact the social and political dimensions of imperial projects? In Colonial Intimacies, Erika Perez probes everyday relationships, encounters, and interactions to show how intimate choices about marriage, social networks, and godparentage were embedded in larger geopolitical concerns.