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Taking the land to make the city : a bicoastal history of North America
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- Creator
- Mary P. Ryan
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019
- Physical Details
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- viii, 438 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 147731783X, 9781477317839, 9781477317846, 9781477317853, 1477317848
- OCLC
- on1269269431, on1035315067
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Pt. 1. Taking the land -- Before the land was taken -- The British and the Americans take the Chesapeake -- The land of San Francisco Bay: cleared but not taken -- pt. 2. Making the municipality: the city and the pueblo -- Erecting Baltimore into a city : democracy as urban space, 1796-1819 -- Shaping the spaces of California : ranchos, plazas and pueblos, 1821-1846 -- pt. 3. Making the modern capitalist city -- Making Baltimore a modern city, 1828-1854 -- The capitalist "pueblo" : selling San Francisco 1847-1856 -- pt. 4. These united cities -- Baltimore, San Francisco and the Civil War -- Epilogue