{"product_id":"frontier-cities-9780812244687","title":"Frontier Cities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrontier 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Local Crossroads, Global Networks, and Frontier Cities Jay Gitlin, Barbara\u003cbr\u003e —Berglund, and Adam Arenson\u003cbr\u003e I. PRECEDENTS: IMPERIAL PLANS AND COMMERCIAL VENTURES\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. The European Frontier City in Early Modern Asia: Goa, Macau, and Manila\u003cbr\u003e —Alan Gallay\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Colonial Projects and Frontier Practices: The First Century of New Orleans History\u003cbr\u003e —Daniel H. Usner, Jr.\u003cbr\u003e II. URBAN SPACE AND FRONTIER REALITIES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Insinuating Empire: Indians, Smugglers, and the Imperial Geography of Eighteenth-Century Montreal\u003cbr\u003e —Brett Rushforth\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. On the Edge of the West: The Roots and Routes of Detroit's Urban Eighteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e —Karen Marrero\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. People of the Pen, People of the Sword: Pittsburgh in 1774\u003cbr\u003e —Carolyn Gilman\u003cbr\u003e III. NETWORKS AND FLOWS: THE FRONTIER CITY IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Grain Kings, Rubber Dreams, and Stock Exchanges: How Transportation and Communication Changed Frontier Cities\u003cbr\u003e —Elliott West\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Frontier Ghosts Along the Urban Pacific Slope\u003cbr\u003e —Matthew Klingle\u003cbr\u003e IV. RENDERINGS: VISUALIZING AND READING THE FRONTIER CITY\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Locating the Frontier City in Time and Space: Documenting a Passing Phenomenon\u003cbr\u003e —Timothy R. Mahoney\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Mapping the Urban Frontier and Losing Frontier Cities\u003cbr\u003e —Peter J. Kastor\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. Private Libraries and Global Worlds: Books and Print Culture in Colonial St. Louis\u003cbr\u003e —John Hoover\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Frontier Cities and the Return of Globalization\u003cbr\u003e —Jay Gitlin, Barbara Berglund, and Adam Arenson\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405721084247,"sku":"9780812244687","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812244687.jpg?v=1730493388","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/frontier-cities-9780812244687","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}