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Frontier Cities recovers the history of borderland cities in a range of periods and locations from eighteenth-century Detroit and nineteenth-century Seattle to twentieth-century Los Angeles. Frontier cities embody the earliest mode of American urban experience and testify to the intersections of col...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2013] ©2013 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Frontier Cities recovers the history of borderland cities in a range of periods and locations from eighteenth-century Detroit and nineteenth-century Seattle to twentieth-century Los Angeles. Frontier cities embody the earliest mode of American urban experience and testify to the intersections of colonial, urban, western, and global history. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | 15 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812207576 |
| Index Number: | E46 |
| CLC: | K710.4 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Local Crossroads, Global Networks, and Frontier Cities / 1. The European Frontier City in EarlyModern Asia: Goa, Macau, and Manila / 2. Colonial Projects and Frontier Practices: The First Century of New Orleans History / 3. Insinuating Empire: Indians, Smugglers, and the Imperial Geography of Eighteenth-Century Montreal / 4. On the Edge of the West: The Roots and Routes of Detroit s Urban Eighteenth Century / 5. People of the Pen, People of the Sword: Pittsburgh in 1774 / 6. Grain Kings, Rubber Dreams, and Stock Exchanges: How Transportation and Communication Changed Frontier Cities / 7. Frontier Ghosts Along the Urban Pacific Slope / 8. Locating the Frontier City in Time and Space: Documenting a Passing Phenomenon / 9. Mapping the Urban Frontier and Losing Frontier Cities / 10. Private Libraries and Global Worlds: Books and Print Culture in Colonial St. Louis / Epilogue: Frontier Cities and the Return of Globalization / Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |