When The Urban Frontier was first published it roused attention because it held that settlers made a concerted effort to bring established institutions and ways

Why have so many central and inner cities in Europe, North America and Australia been so radically revamped in the last three decades, converting urban decay in

In an era of transatlantic migration, Germans were fascinated by the myth of the frontier. Yet, for many, they were most likely to encounter frontier landscapes

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

Macau, New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. All of these metropolitan centers were once frontier cities, urban areas irrevocably shaped by cro