Taking the Land to Make the City : : A Bicoastal History of North America / / Mary P. Ryan.
The history of the United States is often told as a movement westward, beginning at the Atlantic coast and following farmers across the continent. But cities played an equally important role in the country’s formation. Towns sprung up along the Pacific as well as the Atlantic, as Spaniards and Engli...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (448 p.) :; 16 color photos, 60 b&w photos |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- Part I TAKING THE LAND
- Chapter 1 BEFORE THE LAND WAS TAKEN
- Chapter 2 THE BRITISH AND THE AMERICANS TAKE THE CHESAPEAKE
- Chapter 3 THE LAND OF SAN FRANCISCO BAY Cleared but Not Taken
- Part II MAKING THE MUNICIPALITY The City and the Pueblo
- Chapter 4 ERECTING BALTIMORE INTO A CITY Democracy as Urban Space, 1796–1819
- Chapter 5 SHAPING THE SPACES OF CALIFORNIA Ranchos, Plazas, and Pueblos, 1821–1846
- Part III MAKING THE MODERN CAPITALIST CITY
- Chapter 6 MAKING BALTIMORE A MODERN CITY, 1828–1854
- Chapter 7 THE CAPITALIST “PUEBLO” Selling San Francisco, 1847–1856
- Part IV THESE UNITED CITIES
- Chapter 8 BALTIMORE, SAN FRANCISCO, AND THE CIVIL WAR
- EPILOGUE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- INDEX