How cities won the West [[electronic resource] ] : four centuries of urban change in western North America / / Carl Abbott
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| Autore: |
Abbott Carl
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| Titolo: |
How cities won the West [[electronic resource] ] : four centuries of urban change in western North America / / Carl Abbott
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| Pubblicazione: | Albuquerque [N.M.], : University of New Mexico Press, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | x, 347 p. : ill., maps |
| Disciplina: | 307.760978 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | West (U.S.) Economic conditions |
| West (U.S.) Social life and customs | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | How cities won the West |
| ISBN: | 1-283-63529-1 |
| 0-8263-3314-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910817557403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Histories of the American frontier.