How cities won the West : four centuries of urban change in western North America / Carl Abbott.
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TextSeries: Histories of the American frontierPublication details: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (x, 347 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780826333148
- 0826333141
- 1283635291
- 9781283635295
- 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
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban
- Cities and towns
- Cities and towns -- Growth
- Economic history
- Manners and customs
- Metropolitan areas
- Metropolitan areas -- Growth
- Western Canada
- West United States
- 307.760978 22
- HT123.5.W48 A33 2008eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-334) and index.
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.
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