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

By Mary P. Ryan

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