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Taking the land to make the city : a bicoastal history of North America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ryan, Mary Perkins, 1912-1993 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
San Francisco (Calif.) > History > 19th century.
Baltimore (Md.) > History > 19th century.
City planning > California > San Francisco > History.
City planning > Maryland > Baltimore > History.
Social change > Environmental aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Taking the land
  • Before the land was taken
  • The British and the Americans take the Chesapeake
  • The land of San Francisco Bay: cleared but not taken
  • pt. 2. Making the municipality: the city and the pueblo
  • Erecting Baltimore into a city : democracy as urban space, 1796-1819
  • Shaping the spaces of California : ranchos, plazas and pueblos, 1821-1846
  • pt. 3. Making the modern capitalist city
  • Making Baltimore a modern city, 1828-1854
  • The capitalist "pueblo" : selling San Francisco 1847-1856
  • pt. 4. These united cities
  • Baltimore, San Francisco and the Civil War
  • Epilogue.