Mary P. Ryan

Taking the Land to Make the City

A Bicoastal History of North America

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Produktbeschreibung

The award-winning historian Mary P. Ryan offers a new vision of early American history that focuses on the contributions of cities and of West Coast Hispanic culture to the forging of an American system of democracy and capitalism.

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Produktdetails

• Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices
• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 646g
• ISBN-13: 9781477330944
• ISBN-10: 1477330941
• Artikelnr.: 70351812

Autorenporträt

Mary P. Ryan is a noted historian who has won the Bancroft Prize and the Berkshire Prize. She is the author of several books, including Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790–1865; Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century; and Mysteries of Sex: Tracing Women and Men through American History. She is an emeritus professor of history at John Hopkins University and the University of California, Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Part I. Taking the Land
* Chapter 1. Before the Land Was Taken
* Chapter 2. The British and the Americans Take the Chesapeake
* Chapter 3. The Land of San Francisco Bay: Cleared But Not Taken
3. Part II. Making the Municipality: The City and the Pueblo
* Chapter 4. Erecting Baltimore into a City: Democracy as Urban Space,
1796–1819
* Chapter 5. Shaping the Spaces of California: Ranchos, Plazas, and
Pueblos, 1821–1846
4. Part III. Making the Modern Capitalist City
* Chapter 6. Making Baltimore a Modern City, 1828–1854
* Chapter 7. The Capitalist “Pueblo”: Selling San Francisco, 1847–1856
5. Part IV. These United Cities
* Chapter 8. Baltimore, San Francisco, and the Civil War
6. Epilogue
7. Acknowledgments
8. Notes
9. Index