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Frontier cities : encounters at the crossroads of empire /
This book 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 colonia...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2013]
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Local crossroads, global networks, and frontier cities / Jay Gitlin, Barbara Berglund, and Adam Arenson
- Precedents : imperial plans and commercial ventures. The European frontier city in early modern Asia : Goa, Macau, and Manila / Alan Gallay ; Colonial projects and frontier practices : the first century of New Orleans history / Daniel H. Usner, Jr.
- Urban space and frontier realities in the eighteenth century. Insinuating empire : Indians, smugglers, and the imperial geography of eighteenth-century Montreal / Brett Rushforth ; On the edge of the West : the roots and routes of Detroit's urban eighteenth century / Karen Marrero ; People of the pen, people of the sword : Pittsburgh in 1774 / Carolyn Gilman
- Networks and flows : the frontier city in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Grain kings, rubber dreams, and stock exchanges : how transportation and communication changed frontier cities / Elliott West ; Frontier ghosts along the urban Pacific slope / Matthew Klingle
- Renderings : visualizing and reading the frontier city. Locating the frontier city in time and space : documenting a passing phenomenon / Timothy R. Mahoney ; Mapping the urban frontier and losing frontier cities / Peter J. Kostor ; Private libraries and global worlds : books and print culture in Colonial St. Louis / John Neal Hoover
- Epilogue : Frontier cities and the return of globalization / Jay Gitlin, Barbara Berglund, and Adam Arenson.