Frontier And Metropolis
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Frontier And Metropolis
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Author : James Maurice Stockford Careless
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Frontier And Metropolis written by James Maurice Stockford Careless and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Social Science categories.
From Frontier Town To Metropolis
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Author : Jane M. Rausch
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2007
From Frontier Town To Metropolis written by Jane M. Rausch and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Although Villavicencio, the capital of the Department of Meta, is located just 120 miles from Bogot , the mountains of the eastern Andean Cordillera lies between the two cities. As a result, after its founding in 1842, Villavicencio remained an isolated frontier outpost for more than one hundred years--even though "El Portal de la Llanura" ("the Gateway to the Plains") provided the principal access to Colombia's tropical plains (Llanos), a vast grassy region cut by tributaries connecting with the Meta and Guaviare rivers and eventually the Orinoco. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century governments in Bogot regarded the Llanos as the "Eastern Lands of Promise," underestimating the geographic and climatic obstacles to their development. From Frontier Town to Metropolis recounts the history of the town and explains how, by the twenty-first century, it became a thriving metropolis with a population nearing three hundred thousand. During the next sixty years, it became the principal urban center of the Llanos despite the continual presence of militant guerrillas, paramilitaries, and drug traffickers. This book examines the developments that transformed Villavicencio, drawing on data collected about the Colombian Llanos over a period of forty years. Noted researcher Jane M. Rausch offers a detailed treatment of the development of Villavicencio and the Department of Meta as a microcosm of Colombia's eastern frontier. The book incorporates a wealth of research published in Spanish by Colombian scholars in the last twenty years and is the first history of Villavicencio available to English-speaking scholars. It considers the important topics of when a frontier is no longer a frontier and the role played by frontier images in contemporary nationalism.
Nature S Metropolis Chicago And The Great West
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Author : William Cronon
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2009-11-02
Nature S Metropolis Chicago And The Great West written by William Cronon and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-02 with History categories.
A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city…Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel." —Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston Globe
An Analysis Of William Cronon S Nature S Metropolis
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Author : Cheryl Hudson
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-07-28
An Analysis Of William Cronon S Nature S Metropolis written by Cheryl Hudson and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-28 with History categories.
What caused the rise of Chicago, and how did the city's expansion fuel the westward movement of the American frontier – and influence the type of society that evolved as a result? Nature's Metropolis emerged as a result of William Cronon asking and answering those questions, and the work can usefully be seen as an extended example of the critical thinking skill of problem-solving in action. Cronon navigates a path between the followers of Frederick Jackson Turner, author of the thesis that American character was shaped by the experience of the frontier, and revisionists who sought to suggest that the rugged individualism Turner depicted as a creation of life in the West was little but a fiction. For Cronon, the most productive question to ask was not whether or not men forged in the liberty-loving furnace of the Wild West had the sort of impact on America that Turner posited, but the quite different one of how capitalism and political economy had combined to drive the westward expansion of the US. For Cronon, individualism was scarcely even possible in a capitalist machine in which humans were little more than cogs, and the needs and demands of capital, not capitalists, prevailed. Nature's Metropolis, then, is a work in which the rise of Chicago is explained by generating alternative possibilities, and one that uses a rigorous study of the evidence to decide between competing solutions to the problem. It is also a fine work of interpretation, for a large part of Cronon's argument revolves around his attempt to define exactly what is rural, and what is urban, and how the two interact to create a novel economic force.
Frontier Metropolis
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Author : Brian Leigh Dunnigan
language : en
Publisher: Great Lakes Books
Release Date : 2001
Frontier Metropolis written by Brian Leigh Dunnigan and has been published by Great Lakes Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Fascinating glimpses of Detroit in the years before photography.
Calgary Canada S Frontier Metropolis
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Author : Maxwell Foran
language : en
Publisher: [Burlington, Ont.] : Windsor Publications
Release Date : 1982
Calgary Canada S Frontier Metropolis written by Maxwell Foran and has been published by [Burlington, Ont.] : Windsor Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Calgary (Alta.) categories.
Fort Calgary was built in 1875 by the North West Mounted Police to bring law and order to the newly-opened frontier of the Canadian West. With the arrival of the railway and the granting of land concessions favourable to ranching the new town of Calgary grew rapidly, justifying the eternal optimism of its energetic boosters. The discovery of oil at Leduc in 1947 restored the city's pre-eminence in the province's economic life. Always the most American of Canada's major cities, Calgary in recent years has felt the southern influence even more as American multinationals set up new headquarters in the rapidly rising downtown core. Nevertheless, despite the general uniformity of its ethnic makeup and the relative lack of civic enterprise, the city's inhabitants have preserved a spirit which is energetic and immediately recognizable. The text has been enhanced by a fine selection of 120 historical photographs illustrating all aspects of the city's life from its origins to the present day.
Rehabilitation Of The Elderly
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Author : Brian Leigh Dunnigan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-04
Rehabilitation Of The Elderly written by Brian Leigh Dunnigan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-04 with Social Science categories.
Fascinating glimpses of Detroit in the years before photography.
Miami From Frontier To Metropolis
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Author : Frederick Page Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Miami From Frontier To Metropolis written by Frederick Page Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Miami (Fla.) categories.
The Urban Frontier
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Author : Richard C. Wade
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1959
The Urban Frontier written by Richard C. Wade and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with History categories.
When The Urban Frontier was first published it roused attention because it held that settlers made a concerted effort to bring established institutions and ways to their new country. This differed markedly from the then-dominant Turnerian hypothesis that a culture's identity and behavior was determined by its history and experience in a particular social and physical environment. The Urban Frontier is still considered one of the most important books in urban history. This printing of the now-classic Wade volume features a new introduction by Zane L. Miller.
The Complete History Of Bismarck North Dakota
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Author : Randy Hoffman
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2021-09-14
The Complete History Of Bismarck North Dakota written by Randy Hoffman and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-14 with categories.
From the local author of The Bismarck-Mandan Encyclopedia... Follow the comprehensive historical journey of Bismarck-Mandan, North Dakota from an isolated frontier town on the edge of civilization, to its seemingly unlikely assumption as capital, to its role as a pivotal city that encompasses government, education, healthcare, agriculture, energy, and commerce. Bismarck is an anomaly. It's a big city inside a small city. It stands apart with its historically big-level ideas and legends. Bismarck was put on a pedestal upon formation as Edwinton in 1872, when George Sweet first secured a townsite on behalf of Northern Pacific Railway at the point where its northern transcontinental railroad would span the mighty Missouri River. Many touted it as the next great city, and it had the components to realize that destiny. It is that ambitious hope that catapulted Bismarck's achievements and consigned it as a great city. Bismarck owes its existence to the railroad, but it owes its importance to the many men and women who rendered it significant. Bismarck owes its prominence as a government center due to the efforts of Alexander McKenzie and Alexander Hughes lobbying for Bismarck to become capital of Dakota Territory. Had Linda Slaughter not established Bismarck's first school, the city may not have the educational magnitude it does today. Had it not been for the Benedictine Sisters establishing Saint Alexius, the first hospital in Dakota Territory, or Doctors Quain and Ramstad founding what is today part of Sanford Health, Bismarck wouldn't have among the largest concentration of healthcare providers per capita in the Midwest. George Stark first seeded agriculture, still North Dakota's backbone. Entrepreneurs that created million-dollar empires like Harold Schafer, Harley McDowell, Asa Fisher, Arthur Lucas, Edmond and Alexander Hughes, Philip Meyer, and the Wachters incubated Bismarck as an economic epicenter. Bismarck is great because of the people who made it so.