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How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America Book

How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America
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  • How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America
  • Written by author Carl Abbott
  • Published by University of New Mexico Press, 1/1/2008
  • 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
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List of Figures vi

List of Tables viii

Preface ix

Introduction: All Roads Lead to Fresno 1

Chapter 1 Outposts of Empires 17

Transitions: Building a West of Cities, 1840-1940 31

Chapter 2 Across the Wide Mississippi 39

Chapter 3 The First Pacific Century 55

Chapter 4 Inland Empire Cities 74

Chapter 5 Garden Cities 88

Chapter 6 Smokestack Frontiers 100

Chapter 7 Money in the Air 115

Chapter 8 Cities of Homes 132

Chapter 9 Water, Power, Progress 150

Transitions: The Metropolitan West since 1940 163

Chapter 10 Wars and Rumors of War 169

Chapter 11 Progress and Prejudice 186

Chapter 12 The Politics of Diversity 203

Chapter 13 Reshaping the Metropolis 219

Chapter 14 Transnational Urbanism 237

Chapter 15 The Long Arm of the Metropolitan West 256

Conclusion: Urban Frontiers 273

Notes 291

Bibliographical Essay 321

Index 335


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