How Cities Won the West : Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America
by Abbott, CarlEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2010-07-16
Publisher(s): Univ of New Mexico Pr
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Summary
Cities rather than individual pioneers have been the driving force in the settlement and economic development of the western half of North America. Throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries western urban centers served as starting points for conquest and settlement. As these frontier cities matured into metropolitan centers, they grew from imitators of eastern culture and outposts of eastern capital into independent sources of economic, cultural, and intellectual change.
Author Biography
Carl Abbott is professor of urban studies and planning at Portland State University and the coeditor of the Pacific Historical Review. He is the author of numerous books on urban history and the development of cities in the United States.
Table of Contents
| List of Figures | p. vi |
| List of Tables | p. viii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction: All Roads Lead to Fresno | p. 1 |
| Outposts of Empires | p. 17 |
| Transitions: Building a West of Cities, 1840-1940 | p. 31 |
| Across the Wide Mississippi | p. 39 |
| The First Pacific Century | p. 55 |
| Inland Empire Cities | p. 74 |
| Garden Cities | p. 88 |
| Smokestack Frontiers | p. 100 |
| Money in the Air | p. 115 |
| Cities of Homes | p. 132 |
| Water, Power, Progress | p. 150 |
| Transitions: The Metropolitan West since 1940 | p. 163 |
| Wars and Rumors of War | p. 169 |
| Progress and Prejudice | p. 186 |
| The Politics of Diversity | p. 203 |
| Reshaping the Metropolis | p. 219 |
| Transnational Urbanism | p. 237 |
| The Long Arm of the Metropolitan West | p. 256 |
| Conclusion: Urban Frontiers | p. 273 |
| Notes | p. 291 |
| Bibliographical Essay | p. 321 |
| Index | p. 335 |
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