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How cities won the West

by Abbott, Carl.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: Histories of the American frontier Published by : University of New Mexico Press, (Albuquerque [N.M.] :) Physical details: x, 347 p. : ill., maps.
Subject(s): Cities and towns -- West (U.S.) -- History. | Cities and towns -- West (U.S.) -- Growth. | Cities and towns -- Canada, Western -- History. | Cities and towns -- Canada, Western -- Growth. | Metropolitan areas -- West (U.S.) -- Growth. | Metropolitan areas -- Canada, Western -- History. | West (U.S.) -- Economic conditions. | West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs. | Electronic books.
Year: 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-334) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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