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How cities won the West : four centuries of urban change in western North America
- Title
- How cities won the West : four centuries of urban change in western North America / Carl Abbott.
- Author
- Abbott, Carl.
- Publication
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008.
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- Description
- x, 347 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Histories of the American frontier
- Uniform Title
- Histories of the American frontier.
- Subject
- Cities and towns > West (U.S.) > History
- Cities and towns > West (U.S.) > Growth
- Cities and towns > Canada, Western > History
- Cities and towns > Canada, Western > Growth
- Metropolitan areas > West (U.S.) > Growth
- Metropolitan areas > Canada, Western > History
- West (U.S.) > Economic conditions
- West (U.S.) > Social life and customs
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-334) and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780826333124 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0826333125 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008017632
- 99931630030
- OCLC
- ocn226038185
- 226038185
- SCSB-5439358
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries