How cities won the West: four centuries of urban change in western North America
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Main Author: Abbott, Carl (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press 2008
Series:Histories of the American frontier
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-334) and index
Introduction: All roads lead to Fresno -- Outposts of empires -- Building a West of cities, 1840-1940 -- Across the wide Mississippi -- The first Pacific century -- Inland empire cities -- Garden cities -- Smokestack frontiers -- Money in the air -- Cities of homes -- Water, power, progress -- The metropolitan West since 1940 -- Wars and rumors of war -- Progress and prejudice -- The politics of diversity -- Reshaping the metropolis -- Transnational urbanism -- The long arm of the metropolitan West -- Conclusion: Urban frontiers
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 347 p.)
ISBN:0826333141
9780826333148

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