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St. Louis & empire : 250 years of imperial quest & urban crisis
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- Creator
- Henry W. Berger
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2015]
- Physical Details
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- xii, 353 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780809333950, 0809333953, 9780809333967, 0809333961
- OCLC
- ocn880966094
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: St. Louis and foreign relations history -- Gateway to empires, 1764-1860 -- A city in crisis and a city transformed, 1857-1883 -- El comercio del valle, 1875-1893 -- New empires, 1893-1912 -- Oil, railroads, and revolution, 1869-1917 -- The Great War and a new world, 1914-1921 -- Chasing the China market, 1915-1929 -- Depression, war, and global frontiers, 1929-1945 -- Cold War St. Louis, 1945-1990 -- Reinventing St. Louis in the new age of globalism, 1946-2012 -- Epilogue: St. Louis in the world