four centuries of urban change in western North America /
First Statement of Responsibility
Carl Abbott
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Albuquerque :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of New Mexico Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2008
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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x, 347 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill., maps ;
Dimensions
24 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Histories of the American frontier
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-334) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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