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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Autres auteurs: Arenson, Adam, 1978-, Berglund, Barbara, Gitlin, Jay
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
Édition:1st ed.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (280 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780812207576