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Macau, New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. Many of these metropolitan centers were once frontier towns, cities irrevocably formed by cross-cultural borderland beginnings. Spanning a variety of intervals and locations, and including tales of 18th-century Detroit, 19th-century Seattle, and 20th-century Los Angeles, Frontier Metropolitan areas recovers the annals of these urban places and shows how, from the start, natives and beginners alike shared avenues, complexes, and interwoven lives. Not merely do frontier towns embody the earliest matrix of the American urban experience; they also testify to the intersections of colonial, urban, american, and global record. The 12 essays in this collection car paint convincing portraits of frontier towns and their inhabitants: the French traders who bypassed imperial restrictions by tossing casks of brandy over the wall to Indian customers in 18th-century Montreal; Isaac Friedlander, San Francisco's "Grain Ruler"; and Adrien de Pauger, who designed the Vieux Carré in New Orleans. Exploring the economical and political sites, imperial ambitions, and personal intimacies of frontier city development, this collection demonstrates that these towns adopted no mythic type of settlement, nor did they move lockstep by having a certain tempo or pattern of advancement. An introduction sets the collection in historical context, and the epilogue ponders the continuing future of frontier cities amid modern globalization. With ground breaking ideas and a wealthy selection of maps and images, Frontier Metropolitan areas imparts a crucial untold chapter in the engineering of urban record and place.
