How Cities Won the West Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America

Name: How Cities Won the West Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America
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ISBN: 9780826333131

ISBN-10: 0826333133

ISBN-13: 9780826333131

Edition: 2010

Authors: Carl Abbott

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Cities rather than individual pioneers have been the driving force in the settlement and economic development of the western half of North America. Throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries western urban centers served as starting points for conquest and settlement. As these frontier cities matured into metropolitan centers, they grew from imitators of eastern culture and outposts of eastern capital into independent sources of economic, cultural, and intellectual change.

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 7/16/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 357
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.08" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



List of Figures


List of Tables


Preface


Introduction: All Roads Lead to Fresno



Outposts of Empires


Transitions: Building a West of Cities, 1840-1940



Across the Wide Mississippi



The First Pacific Century



Inland Empire Cities



Garden Cities



Smokestack Frontiers



Money in the Air



Cities of Homes



Water, Power, Progress


Transitions: The Metropolitan West since 1940



Wars and Rumors of War



Progress and Prejudice



The Politics of Diversity



Reshaping the Metropolis



Transnational Urbanism



The Long Arm of the Metropolitan West


Conclusion: Urban Frontiers


Notes


Bibliographical Essay


Index