Name: How Cities won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America (Histories of the American Frontier) (en Inglés)
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Author: Carl Abbott
ISBN: 9780826333131

portada How Cities won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America (Histories of the American Frontier) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of New Mexico Press

Autor

Carl Abbott

Año

2010

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

357

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0826333133

ISBN13

9780826333131

Categorías

Comunidades urbanas

How Cities won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America (Histories of the American Frontier) (en Inglés)

Carl Abbott (Autor) · University Of New Mexico Press · Tapa Blanda

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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 of economic, cultural, and intellectual change. From the Gulf of Alaska to the Mississippi River and from the binational metropolis of San Diego-Tijuana to the Prairie Province capitals of Canada, Carl Abbott explores the complex urban history of western Canada and the United States. The evolution of western cities from stations for exploration and military occupation to contemporary entry points for migration and components of a global economy reminds us that it is cities that "won the West." And today, as cultural change increasingly moves from west to east, Abbott argues that the urban West represents a new center from which emerging patterns of behavior and changing customs will help to shape North America in the twenty-first century.