How cities won the West : four centuries of urban change in western North America / / Carl Abbott.
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| Superior document: | Histories of the American frontier |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Histories of the American frontier.
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| Physical Description: | x, 347 p. :; ill., maps. |
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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.