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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...
| Autres auteurs: | , , |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2013]
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| Édition: | 1st ed. |
| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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 colonial, urban, western, and global history. With innovative concepts and a selection of maps and images, this book covers a crucial chapter in the construction of urban history and place. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (280 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780812207576 |