Macau, New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. All of these metropolitan centers were once frontier cities, urban areas irrevocably shaped by cross-cultural borderland beginnings. Spanning a wide range of periods and locations, and including stories of eighteenth-…
This book 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 int…
It is difficult to speak about Europe today without reference to its constitutive regions-supra-national geographical designations such as "Scandinavia", "Eastern Europe", and "the Balkans". Such formulations are so ubiquitous that they are frequently treated as empirical realit…
It is difficult to speak about Europe today without reference to its constitutive regions-supra-national geographical designations such as "Scandinavia", "Eastern Europe", and "the Balkans". Such formulations are so ubiquitous that they are frequently treated as empirical realit…
It is difficult to speak about Europe today without reference to its constitutive regions-supra-national geographical designations such as "Scandinavia," "Eastern Europe," and "the Balkans." Such formulations are so ubiquitous that they are frequently treated as empirical realit…
It is difficult to speak about Europe today without reference to its constitutive regions-supra-national geographical designations such as "Scandinavia", "Eastern Europe", and "the Balkans". Such formulations are so ubiquitous that they are frequently treated as empirical realit…
It is difficult to speak about Europe today without reference to its constitutive regions--supra-national geographical designations such as "Scandinavia," "Eastern Europe," and "the Balkans." Such formulations are so ubiquitous that they are frequently treated as empirical reali…