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Carte Frontier Boosters Elaine Naylor

Frontier Boosters

Port Townsend and the Culture of Development in the American West

Autor: Elaine Naylor
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: McGill-Queen's University Press
Disponibilitate: șansă 50%
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202.93 lei
Frontier Boosters is a compelling social history of urbanization and economic development in the nin...

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Autor
Elaine Naylor
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
2014
Pagini
316
EAN
9780773543676
ISBN
0773543678
Enbook ID
04919426
Editura
McGill-Queen's University Press
Greutate
522
Dimensiuni
152 x 229 x 22

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Frontier Boosters is a compelling social history of urbanization and economic development in the nineteenth-century American West. Focusing on Port Townsend, Washington and the surrounding Puget Sound region, Elaine Naylor examines economic development, "boosterism," and the dynamics of class and race in frontier settlement. In the late-nineteenth century, Seattle had not yet fully emerged as the premier city of the Pacific Northwest, and the residents of Port Townsend had every reason to imagine their town - located at the entrance to Puget Sound, the waterway for the timber resources that drove Washington's frontier economy - as the region's burgeoning metropolis. Naylor argues that the promotion of local economic development, defined as boosterism and commonly linked with land speculators, investors, and businessmen, was in fact embraced by ordinary frontier citizens. As such a "booster" mentality became integrated into Port Townsend's social dynamics, shaping the town's class and race relations, specifically between its Euro-American, Native American, and Chinese communities. Frontier Boosters illuminates the importance of economic development to ordinary settlers and highlights the complex interrelationship between the social dynamics of class and race within the context of the American frontier.

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