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Frontier Crossroads
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Robert Wooster
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

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The idea of the West conjures exciting images of tenacious men and women, huge expanses of unclaimed territory, and feelings of both adventure and lonesome isol
Frontier Cities
Language: en
Pages: 277
Authors: Jay Gitlin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-18 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Macau, New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. All of these metropolitan centers were once frontier cities, urban areas irrevocably shaped by cro
At the Crossroads
Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: Jane T. Merritt
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-01 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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Examining interactions between native Americans and whites in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania, Jane Merritt traces the emergence of race as the defining differe
Continental Crossroads
Language: en
Pages: 378
Authors: Samuel Truett
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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Focuses on the modern Mexican-American borderlands, where a boundary line seems to separate two dissimilar cultures and economies.
Dislocating the Frontier
Language: en
Pages: 215
Authors: Deborah Bird Rose
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-03-01 - Publisher: ANU E Press

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The frontier is one of the most pervasive concepts underlying the production of national identity in Australia. Recently it has become a highly contested domain