How Cities Won the West : Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America.
Title:
How Cities Won the West : Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America.
Author:
Abbott, Carl.
ISBN:
9780826333148
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (359 pages)
Series:
Histories of the American Frontier series
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
The author traces the evolution of early frontier towns at the beginning of Western expansion to the thriving urban centers they have become today.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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