America's westward expansion involved more than pushing the frontier across the Mississippi toward the Pacific; it also consisted of urbanizing undeveloped regions of the colonial states. In 1810, New York's future governor DeWitt Clinton marveled that the rage for erecting villages is a perfect mania. The development of Rochester and Syracuse illuminates the national experience of internal economic and cultural colonization during the first half...
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