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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.

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.