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ONLINE

First edition

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019

1 online resource (465 pages)

ISBN 9781477317846 (e-book)

ISBN 9781477317853 (e-book)

ISBN 9781477317839

Print version: Ryan, Mary P. Taking the land to make the city : a bicoastal history of North America. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019 465 pages ISBN 9781477317839

Includes bibliographical references and index

Part 1. Taking the land -- Before the land was taken -- The British and the Americans take the Chesapeake -- The land of San Francisco Bay: cleared but not taken -- pt. 2. Making the municipality: the city and the pueblo -- Erecting Baltimore into a city : democracy as urban space, 1796-1819 -- Shaping the spaces of California : ranchos, plazas and pueblos, 1821-1846 -- pt. 3. Making the modern capitalist city -- Making Baltimore a modern city, 1828-1854 -- The capitalist "pueblo" : selling San Francisco 1847-1856 -- pt. 4. These united cities -- Baltimore, San Francisco and the Civil War -- Epilogue.

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