 | Frontier Cities: Encounters at the Crossroads of Empire Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- North America -- History; City and town life -- North America -- History; Borderlands -- North America -- History; Frontier Cities recovers the history of borderland cities in a range of periods and locations--from eighteenth-century Detroit and nineteenth-century Seattle to twentieth-century Los Angeles. Frontier cities embody the earliest mode of American urban experience and testify to the intersections of colonial, urban, western, and global history. Jay Gitlin is Associate Director of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University. Barbara Berglund is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida. Adam Arenson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at El Paso. |
