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Title: How Cities Won the West
Subtitle: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America
Author: Carl Abbott
Narrator: Rhett Samuel Price
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-16-17
Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
Cities rather than individual pioneers have been the driving force in the settlement and economic development of the western half of North America. Throughout the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, western urban centers served as starting points for conquest and settlement. As these frontier cities matured into metropolitan centers, they grew from imitators of eastern culture and outposts of eastern capital into independent sources of economic, cultural, and intellectual change.
From the Gulf of Alaska to the Mississippi River and from the binational metropolis of San Diego-Tijuana to the Prairie Province capitals of Canada, Carl Abbott explores the complex urban history of western Canada and the United States. The evolution of western cities from stations for exploration and military occupation to contemporary entry points for migration and components of a global economy reminds us that it is cities that won the West. And today, as cultural change increasingly moves from west to east, Abbott argues that the urban West represents a new center from which emerging patterns of behavior and changing customs will help to shape North America in the 21st century.
Critic Reviews:
"Exquisitely crafted...Highly recommended." (Choice)
"This is a wonderful book, beautifully written and expansive in scope." (The Journal of Arizona History)
Members Reviews:
A text worth reading
This book was assigned in a university course I am taking so it meant a potentially dry read. Instead, the language is interesting and reads well. If you are curious about how we came to live in cities, you will find this full of fascinating facts.
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Title: How Cities Won the West
Subtitle: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America
Author: Carl Abbott
Narrator: Rhett Samuel Price
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-16-17
Publisher: University Press Audiobooks
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
Cities rather than individual pioneers have been the driving force in the settlement and economic development of the western half of North America. Throughout the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, western urban centers served as starting points for conquest and settlement. As these frontier cities matured into metropolitan centers, they grew from imitators of eastern culture and outposts of eastern capital into independent sources of economic, cultural, and intellectual change.
From the Gulf of Alaska to the Mississippi River and from the binational metropolis of San Diego-Tijuana to the Prairie Province capitals of Canada, Carl Abbott explores the complex urban history of western Canada and the United States. The evolution of western cities from stations for exploration and military occupation to contemporary entry points for migration and components of a global economy reminds us that it is cities that won the West. And today, as cultural change increasingly moves from west to east, Abbott argues that the urban West represents a new center from which emerging patterns of behavior and changing customs will help to shape North America in the 21st century.
Critic Reviews:
"Exquisitely crafted...Highly recommended." (Choice)
"This is a wonderful book, beautifully written and expansive in scope." (The Journal of Arizona History)
Members Reviews:
A text worth reading
This book was assigned in a university course I am taking so it meant a potentially dry read. Instead, the language is interesting and reads well. If you are curious about how we came to live in cities, you will find this full of fascinating facts.