UID:
edocfu_9958352423702883
Format:
1 online resource (280 pages) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9780812207576
Content:
Frontier Cities recovers the history of borderland cities in a range of periods and locations—from eighteenth-century Detroit and nineteenth-century Seattle to twentieth-century Los Angeles. Frontier cities embody the earliest mode of American urban experience and testify to the intersections of colonial, urban, western, and global history.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction: Local Crossroads, Global Networks, and Frontier Cities /
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1. The European Frontier City in EarlyModern Asia: Goa, Macau, and Manila /
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2. Colonial Projects and Frontier Practices: The First Century of New Orleans History /
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3. Insinuating Empire: Indians, Smugglers, and the Imperial Geography of Eighteenth-Century Montreal /
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4. On the Edge of the West: The Roots and Routes of Detroit’s Urban Eighteenth Century /
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5. People of the Pen, People of the Sword: Pittsburgh in 1774 /
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6. Grain Kings, Rubber Dreams, and Stock Exchanges: How Transportation and Communication Changed Frontier Cities /
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7. Frontier Ghosts Along the Urban Pacific Slope /
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8. Locating the Frontier City in Time and Space: Documenting a Passing Phenomenon /
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9. Mapping the Urban Frontier and Losing Frontier Cities /
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10. Private Libraries and Global Worlds: Books and Print Culture in Colonial St. Louis /
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Epilogue: Frontier Cities and the Return of Globalization /
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Notes --
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List of Contributors --
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Index --
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Acknowledgments.
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.9783/9780812207576
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812207576
