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

Abbott, Carl.

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

Abbott, Carl.

9780826333148

Abbott, Carl.

1 online resource (359 pages)

Histories of the American Frontier series

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION: All Roads Lead to Fresno -- 1: Outposts of Empires -- TRANSITIONS: Building a West of Cities, 1840-1940 -- 2: Across the Wide Mississippi -- 3: The First Pacific Century -- 4: Inland Empire Cities -- 5: Garden Cities -- 6: Smokestack Frontiers -- 7: Money in the Air -- 8: Cities of Homes -- 9: Water, Power, Progress -- TRANSITIONS: The Metropolitan West since 1940 -- 10: Wars and Rumors of War -- 11: Progress and Prejudice -- 12: The Politics of Diversity -- 13: Reshaping the Metropolis -- 14: Transnational Urbanism -- 15: The Long Arm of the Metropolitan West -- CONCLUSION: Urban Frontiers -- Notes -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index -- Back Cover.

The author traces the evolution of early frontier towns at the beginning of Western expansion to the thriving urban centers they have become today.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Cities and towns -- Canada, Western -- Growth.

Cities and towns -- Canada, Western -- History.

Cities and towns -- West (U.S.) -- Growth.

Cities and towns -- West (U.S.) -- History.

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