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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817557403321

Autore

Abbott Carl

Titolo

How cities won the West [[electronic resource] ] : four centuries of urban change in western North America / / Carl Abbott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque [N.M.], : University of New Mexico Press, 2008

ISBN

1-283-63529-1

0-8263-3314-1

Descrizione fisica

x, 347 p. : ill., maps

Collana

Histories of the American frontier

Disciplina

307.760978

Soggetti

Cities and towns - West (U.S.) - History

Cities and towns - West (U.S.) - Growth

Cities and towns - Canada, Western - History

Cities and towns - Canada, Western - Growth

Metropolitan areas - West (U.S.) - Growth

Metropolitan areas - Canada, Western - History

West (U.S.) Economic conditions

West (U.S.) Social life and customs

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 (p. 291-334) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.