How cities won the West four centuries of urban change in western North America /

Main Author: Abbott, Carl.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque [N.M.] : University of New Mexico Press, 2008.
Series:Histories of the American frontier
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10492217
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300 |a x, 347 p. :  |b ill., maps. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-334) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction: All roads lead to Fresno -- Outposts of empires -- Building a West of cities, 1840-1940 -- Across the wide Mississippi -- The first Pacific century -- Inland empire cities -- Garden cities -- Smokestack frontiers -- Money in the air -- Cities of homes -- Water, power, progress -- The metropolitan West since 1940 -- Wars and rumors of war -- Progress and prejudice -- The politics of diversity -- Reshaping the metropolis -- Transnational urbanism -- The long arm of the metropolitan West -- Conclusion: Urban frontiers. 
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651 0 |a West (U.S.)  |x Economic conditions. 
651 0 |a West (U.S.)  |x Social life and customs. 
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