How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America
(Part of the Histories of the American Frontier Series and Histories of the American Frontier Series Series)
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Cities rather than individual pioneers have been the driving force in the settlement and economic development of the western half of North America. Throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, western urban centers served as starting points for conquest and settlement. As these frontier cities matured into metropolitan centers, they grew from imitators of eastern culture and outposts of eastern capital into independent sources...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0826333133
ISBN13:9780826333131
Release Date:July 2010
Publisher:University of New Mexico Press
Length:357 Pages
Weight:1.36 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.6" x 9.0"
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