TY - BOOK AU - Gitlin,Jay AU - Berglund,Barbara AU - Arenson,Adam TI - Frontier Cities: Encounters at the Crossroads of Empire SN - 9780812207576 PY - 2012/// CY - Philadelphia PB - University of Pennsylvania Press KW - Borderlands-North America-History KW - City and town life-North America-History KW - Frontier and pioneer life-North America KW - Fernzugriff KW - Electronic books N1 - E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich; Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Local Crossroads, Global Networks, and Frontier Cities -- I Precedents: Imperial Plans and Commercial Ventures -- 1 The European Frontier City in EarlyModern Asia: Goa, Macau, and Manila -- 2 Colonial Projects and Frontier Practices: The First Century of New Orleans History -- II Urban Space and Frontier Realities in the Eighteenth Century -- 3 Insinuating Empire: Indians, Smugglers, and the Imperial Geography of Eighteenth-Century Montreal -- 4 On the Edge of the West: The Roots and Routes of Detroit's Urban Eighteenth Century -- 5 People of the Pen, People of the Sword: Pittsburgh in 1774 -- III Networks and Flows: The Frontier City in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- 6 Grain Kings, Rubber Dreams, and Stock Exchanges: How Transportation and Communication Changed Frontier Cities -- 7 Frontier Ghosts Along the Urban Pacific Slope -- IV Renderings: Visualizing and Reading the Frontier City -- 8 Locating the Frontier City in Time and Space: Documenting a Passing Phenomenon -- 9 Mapping the Urban Frontier and Losing Frontier Cities -- 10 Private Libraries and Global Worlds: Books and Print Culture in Colonial St. Louis John -- Epilogue: Frontier Cities and the Return of Globalization -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments N2 - Frontier Cities recovers the history of borderland cities in a range of periods and locations--from eighteenth-century Detroit and nineteenth-century Seattle to twentieth-century Los Angeles. Frontier cities embody the earliest mode of American urban experience and testify to the intersections of colonial, urban, western, and global history UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/maxweberstiftung-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3442081 ER -