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Introduction: Local Crossroads, Global Networks, and Frontier Cities
I. Precedents: Imperial Plans and Commercial Ventures
1. The European Frontier City in Early Modern Asia: Goa, Macau, and Manila
2. Colonial Projects and Frontier Practices: The First Century of New Orleans History
II. Urban Space and Frontier Realities In The Eighteenth Century
3. Insinuating Empire: Indians, Smugglers, and the Imperial Geography of Eighteenth-Century Montreal
4. On the Edge of the West: The Roots and Routes of Detroit’s Urban Eighteenth Century
5. People of the Pen, People of the Sword: Pittsburgh in 1774
III. Networks and Flows: The Frontier City In The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
6. Grain Kings, Rubber Dreams, and Stock Exchanges: How Transportation and Communication Changed Frontier Cities
7. Frontier Ghosts Along the Urban Pacific Slope
IV. Renderings: Visualizing and Reading The Frontier City
8. Locating the Frontier City in Time and Space: Documenting a Passing Phenomenon
9. Mapping the Urban Frontier and Losing Frontier Cities
10. Private Libraries and Global Worlds: Books and Print Culture in Colonial St. Louis
Epilogue: Frontier Cities and the Return of Globalization
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
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