River Towns in the Great West - The Structure of Provincial Urbanization in American Midwest, 1820

Zusammenfassung This book analyzes! with unprecedented breadth and coverage! the development! maturation! growth! and sudden decline of a distinctive! regional urban economic system that developed along the upper Mississippi River north of St. Louis during the middle third of the nineteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures and tables; Acknowledgments; Part I. Human Geography and the Structure of Regional Life: 1. Introduction and 'topographical description'; 2. The land takes shape: the process of settlement; 3. Encountering the rivers; Part II. The Human System: 4. Towns, roads, steamboat routes, and the development of a regional system; 5. The system takes shape: an economic geography; 6. The structure of the regional economy; Part III. The Regional Urban System: 7. The currents of trade and regional urbanization; 8. Town and system: local history in a regional context; Epilogue; Appendixes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Timothy R. Mahoney
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.02.2003
• EAN: 9780521530620
• ISBN: 978-0-521-53062-0
• No. of pages: 332
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, US Midwest