Cities rather than individual pioneers have been the driving force
in the settlement and economic development of the western half of
North America. Throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and
nineteenth centuries, western urban centers served as starting
points for conquest and settlement. As these frontier cities
matured into metropolitan centers, they grew from imitators of
eastern culture and outposts of eastern capital into independent
sources of economic, cultural, and intellectual change. From the
Gulf of Alaska to the Mississippi River and from the binational
metropolis of San Diego-Tijuana to the Prairie Province capitals of
Canada, Carl Abbott explores the complex urban history of western
Canada and the United States. The evolution of western cities from
stations for exploration and military occupation to contemporary
entry points for migration and components of a global economy
reminds us that it is cities that "won the West." And today, as
cultural change increasingly moves from west to east, Abbott argues
that the urban West represents a new center from which emerging
patterns of behavior and changing customs will help to shape North
America in the twenty-first century.
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