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Albuquerque [N.M.] : University of New Mexico Press, 2008

1 online resource (x, 347 p.) : ill., maps

ISBN 9780826333148 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780826333124 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780826333131

Histories of the American frontier

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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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(OCoLC)793655814