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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788307603321

Titolo

Frontier cities [[electronic resource] ] : encounters at the crossroads of empire / / edited by Jay Gitlin, Barbara Berglund, and Adam Arenson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013

ISBN

0-8122-0757-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GitlinJay

SokolovBarbara Berglund

ArensonAdam <1978->

Disciplina

970

Soggetti

Frontier and pioneer life - North America

City and town life - North America - History

Borderlands - North America - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: Local Crossroads, Global Networks, and Frontier Cities / Gitlin, Jay / Berglund, Barbara / Arenson, Adam -- I. Precedents: Imperial Plans and Commercial Ventures -- 1. The European Frontier City in Early Modern Asia: Goa, Macau, and Manila / Gallay, Alan -- 2. Colonial Projects and Frontier Practices: The First Century of New Orleans History / Usner, Daniel H. -- II. Uran Sp ace and Frontier Realities in the Eighteenth Century -- 3. Insinuating Empire: Indians, Smugglers, and the Imperial Geography of Eighteenth-Century Montreal / Rushforth, Brett -- 4. On the Edge of the West: The Roots and Routes of Detroit's Urban Eighteenth Century / Marrero, Karen -- 5. People of the Pen, People of the Sword: Pittsburgh in 1774 / Gilman, Carolyn -- III. Networks and Flows: The Frontier City in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- 6. Grain Kings, Rubber Dreams, and Stock Exchanges: How Transportation and Communication Changed Frontier Cities / West, Elliott -- 7. Frontier Ghosts Along the Urban Pacific Slope / Klingle, Matthew -- IV. Renderings: Visualizing and Reading the Frontier City -- 8. Locating the Frontier City in Time and Space: Documenting a Passing Phenomenon / Mahoney, Timothy R. -- 9. Mapping the Urban Frontier and Losing Frontier Cities / Kastor,



Peter J. -- 10. Private Libraries and Global Worlds: Books and Print Culture in Colonial St. Louis / Hoover, John Neal -- Epilogue: Frontier Cities and the Return of Globalization / Gitlin, Jay / Berglund, Barbara / Arenson, Adam -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

Macau, New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. All of these metropolitan centers were once frontier cities, urban areas irrevocably shaped by cross-cultural borderland beginnings. Spanning a wide range of periods and locations, and including stories of eighteenth-century Detroit, nineteenth-century Seattle, and twentieth-century Los Angeles, Frontier Cities recovers the history of these urban places and shows how, from the start, natives and newcomers alike shared streets, buildings, and interwoven lives. Not only do frontier cities embody the earliest matrix of the American urban experience; they also testify to the intersections of colonial, urban, western, and global history. The twelve essays in this collection paint compelling portraits of frontier cities and their inhabitants: the French traders who bypassed imperial regulations by throwing casks of brandy over the wall to Indian customers in eighteenth-century Montreal; Isaac Friedlander, San Francisco's "Grain King"; and Adrien de Pauger, who designed the Vieux Carré in New Orleans. Exploring the economic and political networks, imperial ambitions, and personal intimacies of frontier city development, this collection demonstrates that these cities followed no mythic line of settlement, nor did they move lockstep through a certain pace or pattern of evolution. An introduction puts the collection in historical context, and the epilogue ponders the future of frontier cities in the midst of contemporary globalization. With innovative concepts and a rich selection of maps and images, Frontier Cities imparts a crucial untold chapter in the construction of urban history and place.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910739432603321

Autore

Dragomir Silvestru Sever

Titolo

Inequalities for the numerical radius of linear operators in Hilbert spaces / / Silvestru Sever Dragomir

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , 2013

ISBN

3-319-01448-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 120 pages)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Mathematics, , 2191-8198

Disciplina

515

Soggetti

Linear operators

Hilbert space

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"ISSN: 2191-8198."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Inequalities for One Operator -- 3. Inequalities for Two Operators .

Sommario/riassunto

Aimed toward researchers, postgraduate students, and scientists in linear operator theory and mathematical inequalities, this self-contained monograph focuses on numerical radius inequalities for bounded linear operators on complex Hilbert spaces for the case of one and two operators. Students at the graduate level will learn some essentials that may be useful for reference in courses in functional analysis, operator theory, differential equations, and quantum computation, to name several. Chapter 1 presents fundamental facts about the numerical range and the numerical radius of bounded linear operators in Hilbert spaces. Chapter 2 illustrates recent results obtained concerning numerical radius and norm inequalities for one operator on a complex Hilbert space, as well as some special vector inequalities in inner product spaces due to Buzano, Goldstein, Ryff and Clarke as well as some reverse Schwarz inequalities and Grüss type inequalities obtained by the author. Chapter 3 presents  recent results regarding the norms and the numerical radii of two bounded linear operators. The techniques shown in this chapter are elementary but elegant and may be accessible to undergraduate students with a working knowledge of operator theory. A number of vector inequalities in inner product spaces as well as inequalities for means of nonnegative real numbers are also employed in this chapter. All the



results presented are completely proved and the original references are mentioned.