| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 269 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Frontier and pioneer life -- North America
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City and town life -- North America -- History
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Borderlands -- North America -- History
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HISTORY -- United States -- General.
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Borderlands.
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City and town life.
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Frontier and pioneer life.
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North America.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gitlin, Jay
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Berglund, Barbara
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Arenson, Adam, 1978-
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| LC no. |
2012022789 |
| ISBN |
0812207572 |
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9780812207576 |
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