Frontier Cities : : Encounters at the Crossroads of Empire / / ed. by Jay Gitlin, Adam Arenson, Barbara Berglund.
Macau, New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. All of these metropolitan centers were once frontier cities, urban areas irrevocably shaped by cross-cultural borderland beginnings. Spanning a wide range of periods and locations, and including stories of eighteenth-century Detroit, nine...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 15 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Local Crossroads, Global Networks, and Frontier Cities
- I. Precedents: Imperial Plans and Commercial Ventures
- 1. The European Frontier City in EarlyModern Asia: Goa, Macau, and Manila
- 2. Colonial Projects and Frontier Practices: The First Century of New Orleans History
- II. Urban Sp ace and Frontier Realities in the Eighteenth Century
- 3. Insinuating Empire: Indians, Smugglers, and the Imperial Geography of Eighteenth-Century Montreal
- 4. On the Edge of the West: The Roots and Routes of Detroit's Urban Eighteenth Century
- 5. People of the Pen, People of the Sword: Pittsburgh in 1774
- III. Networks and Flows: The Frontier City in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- 6. Grain Kings, Rubber Dreams, and Stock Exchanges: How Transportation and Communication Changed Frontier Cities
- 7. Frontier Ghosts Along the Urban Pacific Slope
- IV. Renderings: Visualizing and Reading the Frontier City
- 8. Locating the Frontier City in Time and Space: Documenting a Passing Phenomenon
- 9. Mapping the Urban Frontier and Losing Frontier Cities
- 10. Private Libraries and Global Worlds: Books and Print Culture in Colonial St. Louis
- Epilogue: Frontier Cities and the Return of Globalization
- Notes
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Acknowledgments