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

• मुख्य लेखक: Shaw, Diane (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Johns Hopkins University Press 2004
• विषय: Geography
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...