How Cities Won the West
Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America
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.From the Gulf of Alaska to the Mississippi River and from the binational metropolis of San Diego-Tijuana to the Prairie Province capitals of Canada, Ca…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8263-3314-8
- EAN: 9780826333148
- Produktnummer: 34255946
- Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 358 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 15'424 KB
Über den Autor
Carl Abbott is professor of urban studies and planning at Portland State University and the coeditor of the Pacific Historical Review. He is the author of numerous books on urban history and the development of cities in the United States.
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