Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Local Crossroads, Global Networks, and Frontier Cities 1
4. I. Precedents: Imperial Plans and Commercial Ventures
5. 1. The European Frontier City in EarlyModern Asia: Goa, Macau, and Manila 11
6. 2. Colonial Projects and Frontier Practices: The First Century of New Orleans History 27
7. II. Urban Sp ace and Frontier Realities in the Eighteenth Century
8. 3. Insinuating Empire: Indians, Smugglers, and the Imperial Geography of Eighteenth-Century Montreal 49
9. 4. On the Edge of the West: The Roots and Routes of Detroit’s Urban Eighteenth Century 66
10. 5. People of the Pen, People of the Sword: Pittsburgh in 1774 87
11. III. Networks and Flows: The Frontier City in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
12. 6. Grain Kings, Rubber Dreams, and Stock Exchanges: How Transportation and Communication Changed Frontier Cities 107
13. 7. Frontier Ghosts Along the Urban Pacific Slope 121
14. IV. Renderings: Visualizing and Reading the Frontier City
15. 8. Locating the Frontier City in Time and Space: Documenting a Passing Phenomenon 149
16. 9. Mapping the Urban Frontier and Losing Frontier Cities 165
17. 10. Private Libraries and Global Worlds: Books and Print Culture in Colonial St. Louis 190
18. Epilogue: Frontier Cities and the Return of Globalization 200
19. Notes 209
20. List of Contributors 253
21. Index 255
22. Acknowledgments 267