Frontier Cities : : Encounters at the Crossroads of Empire /

Frontier Cities : : Encounters at the Crossroads of Empire / / ed. by Jay Gitlin, Adam Arenson, Barbara Berglund.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
MitwirkendeR:
Arenson, Adam,
Berglund, Barbara,
Gallay, Alan,
Gilman, Carolyn,
Gitlin, Jay,
Hoover, John Neal,
Kastor, Peter J.,
Klingle, Matthew,
Mahoney, Timothy R.,
Marrero, Karen,
Rushforth, Brett,
Usner, Daniel H.,
West, Elliott,
HerausgeberIn:
Arenson, Adam,
Berglund, Barbara,
Gitlin, Jay,
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

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