How cities won the West : four centuries of urban change in western North America / / Carl Abbott.

• Superior document: Histories of the American frontier
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Abbott, Carl.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Histories of the American frontier.
• Physical Description: x, 347 p. :; ill., maps.

Table of Contents

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.