City Building on the Eastern Frontier: Sorting the New Nineteenth-Century City

by Diane Shaw

America's westward expansion involved more than pushing the frontier across the Mississippi toward the Pacific; it also consisted of urbanizing undeveloped regions of the colonial states. In 1810, New York's future governor DeWitt Clinton marveled that the rage for erecting villages is a perfect mania. The development of Rochester and Syracuse illuminates the national experience of internal economic and cultural colonization during the first half...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801879256
• ISBN13: 9780801879258
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"