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Book SynopsisFrontier 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Local Crossroads, Global Networks, and Frontier Cities Jay Gitlin, Barbara
—Berglund, and Adam Arenson
I. PRECEDENTS: IMPERIAL PLANS AND COMMERCIAL VENTURES
Chapter 1. The European Frontier City in Early Modern Asia: Goa, Macau, and Manila
—Alan Gallay
Chapter 2. Colonial Projects and Frontier Practices: The First Century of New Orleans History
—Daniel H. Usner, Jr.
II. URBAN SPACE AND FRONTIER REALITIES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Chapter 3. Insinuating Empire: Indians, Smugglers, and the Imperial Geography of Eighteenth-Century Montreal
—Brett Rushforth
Chapter 4. On the Edge of the West: The Roots and Routes of Detroit's Urban Eighteenth Century
—Karen Marrero
Chapter 5. People of the Pen, People of the Sword: Pittsburgh in 1774
—Carolyn Gilman
III. NETWORKS AND FLOWS: THE FRONTIER CITY IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES
Chapter 6. Grain Kings, Rubber Dreams, and Stock Exchanges: How Transportation and Communication Changed Frontier Cities
—Elliott West
Chapter 7. Frontier Ghosts Along the Urban Pacific Slope
—Matthew Klingle
IV. RENDERINGS: VISUALIZING AND READING THE FRONTIER CITY
Chapter 8. Locating the Frontier City in Time and Space: Documenting a Passing Phenomenon
—Timothy R. Mahoney
Chapter 9. Mapping the Urban Frontier and Losing Frontier Cities
—Peter J. Kastor
Chapter 10. Private Libraries and Global Worlds: Books and Print Culture in Colonial St. Louis
—John Hoover
Epilogue. Frontier Cities and the Return of Globalization
—Jay Gitlin, Barbara Berglund, and Adam Arenson
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
