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Frontier cities [[electronic resource] ] : encounters at the crossroads of empire / / edited by Jay Gitlin, Barbara Berglund, and Adam Arenson
| Frontier cities [[electronic resource] ] : encounters at the crossroads of empire / / edited by Jay Gitlin, Barbara Berglund, and Adam Arenson |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
| Disciplina | 970 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GitlinJay
SokolovBarbara Berglund ArensonAdam <1978-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Frontier and pioneer life - North America
City and town life - North America - History Borderlands - North America - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8122-0757-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463747203321 |
| Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Frontier cities [[electronic resource] ] : encounters at the crossroads of empire / / edited by Jay Gitlin, Barbara Berglund, and Adam Arenson
| Frontier cities [[electronic resource] ] : encounters at the crossroads of empire / / edited by Jay Gitlin, Barbara Berglund, and Adam Arenson |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
| Disciplina | 970 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GitlinJay
SokolovBarbara Berglund ArensonAdam <1978-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Frontier and pioneer life - North America
City and town life - North America - History Borderlands - North America - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
American History
American Studies European History History World History |
| ISBN | 0-8122-0757-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788307603321 |
| Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Frontier cities : encounters at the crossroads of empire / / edited by Jay Gitlin, Barbara Berglund, and Adam Arenson
| Frontier cities : encounters at the crossroads of empire / / edited by Jay Gitlin, Barbara Berglund, and Adam Arenson |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (276 p.) |
| Disciplina | 970 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GitlinJay
BerglundBarbara ArensonAdam <1978-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Frontier and pioneer life - North America
City and town life - North America - History Borderlands - North America - History |
| ISBN | 0-8122-0757-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808536303321 |
| Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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