How cities won the West [electronic resource] : four centuries of urban change in western North America / Carl Abbott.
Abbott, Carl, 1944-
2008
HT123.5.W48 A33 2008eb
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Title
How cities won the West [electronic resource] : four centuries of urban change in western North America / Carl Abbott.
Author
Abbott, Carl, 1944-
ISBN
9780826333148 (electronic book)
9780826333124
9780826333131
Publication Details
Albuquerque [N.M.] : University of New Mexico Press, 2008.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 347 p.) : ill., maps.
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HT123.5.W48 A33 2008eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
307.760978
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-334) and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
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Histories of the American frontier
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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.

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