مؤلف: Lawrence H. Larsen

In this panoramic survey of urbanization in the American South from its beginnings in the colonial period through the ‘Sunbelt’ era of today, Lawrence Larsen examines both the ways in which southern …

Operating under an outmoded system of urban development and faced by the vicissitudes of the Civil War and Reconstruction, southerners in the nineteenth century built a network of cities that met the …

From its birth as interdependent towns on the Missouri River frontier to its emergence as a metropolis straddling two states, Omaha-Council Bluffs has been one of the great urban construction project …

In this panoramic survey of urbanization in the American South from its beginnings in the colonial period through the ‘Sunbelt’ era of today, Lawrence Larsen examines both the ways in which southern …

Operating under an outmoded system of urban development and faced by the vicissitudes of the Civil War and Reconstruction, southerners in the nineteenth century built a network of cities that met the …

Historians have largely ignored the western city; although a number of specialized studies have appeared in recent years, this volume is the first to assess the importance of the urban frontier in br …