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100 1 _aGitlin, Jay.
_966631
245 1 0 _aFrontier Cities :
_bEncounters at the Crossroads of Empire.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c2012.
264 4 _c©2012.
300 _a1 online resource (276 pages)
336 _aText
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337 _aComputermedien
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338 _aOnline Resource
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500 _aE-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich
505 0 _aCover -- 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.
520 _aFrontier 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.
653 _aBorderlands-North America-History.
653 _aCity and town life-North America-History.
653 _aFrontier and pioneer life-North America.
655 _aFernzugriff
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655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aBerglund, Barbara.
_966632
700 1 _aArenson, Adam.
_966633
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aGitlin, Jay
_tFrontier Cities
_dPhiladelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,c2012
_z9780812244687
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/maxweberstiftung-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3442081
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