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- Condition
- Book Title
- River Towns in the Great West: The Structure of Provincial Urbani
- Publication Date
- 1990-08-31
- Pages
- 332
- ISBN
- 9780521361309
- Subject Area
- Social Science, Business & Economics, History
- Publication Name
- River Towns in the Great West : The Structure of Provincial Urbanization in the American Midwest, 1820-1870
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Item Length
- 9.4 in
- Subject
- United States / 19th Century, Economic Conditions, Sociology / Urban
- Publication Year
- 1990
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Item Weight
- 22.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 332 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521361303
ISBN-13
9780521361309
eBay Product ID (ePID)
723698
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
332 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
River Towns in the Great West : The Structure of Provincial Urbanization in the American Midwest, 1820-1870
Subject
United States / 19th Century, Economic Conditions, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
1990
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
22.6 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
89-032208
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
"Timothy R. Mahoney makes a significant contribution...with his interesting and assiduously researched study of town development in the upper Mississippi Valley. By focusing on a regional system, Mahoney extends his analysis beyond the limitations he associates with local history and with urban biography. The result is a sophisticated interpretation of how regional forces shaped the development of river towns....An innovative, perceptive, and persuasive analysis of the rise and fall of river towns in the West." The Journal of American History, "River Towns in the Great West is a most useful book, one that will have more appeal to historians and economic historians than to the more analytical economists and geographers." Journal of Regional Science
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
307.76/0977
Table Of Content
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.
Synopsis
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., 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. Between 1820 and the Civil War the upper Mississippi River valley was at the center of national and international attention. At the edge of the northern frontier, this area, known as 'The Great West,' was the destination of hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the East and from northern Europe. To many, its rich lands, temperate climate, and vast rivers offered an opportunity to establish a better life, as well as a chance to enter, if desired, the mainstream of American life. Drawing from a variety of methods used in historical geography, economic history, systems analysis, and social and urban history, Timothy Mahoney analyzes how early settlement patterns were affected by experience, climate, and geography and how they, in turn, shaped the initial patterns of economic, urban, and transportation development., Between 1820 and the Civil War, the upper Mississippi valley was at the center of national and international attention. At the edge of the northern frontier, this area, known as "The Great West," was the destination of hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the East and from northern Europe. This book analyzes the development, maturation, growth, and sudden decline of the distinctive regional urban-economic system that developed in this area. Drawing from a variety of methods used in historical geography, economic history, systems analysis, and social and urban history, the author analyzes how early settlement patterns were affected by experience, climate, and geography, and, in turn, shaped the initial patterns of economic, urban, and transportation development. As the systems developed, towns became more functionally differentiated and several towns emerged as the more important competitors for regional hinterland control. The center of the analysis focuses on the efforts of these river towns to respond to a variety of settlement, economic, and transport network forces that worked in favor of the regional entrepots of Chicago and St. Louis.
LC Classification Number
HT123.5.M53 M34 1989
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