Cities on the Plains

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  • Cities on the Plains Book Detail

  • Author : James R. Shortridge
  • Release Date : 2004
  • Publisher :
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 504
  • ISBN 13 :
  • File Size : 37,37 MB

Cities on the Plains by James R. Shortridge PDF Summary

Book Description: "Drawing on rich historical research filtered through cultural geography, Shortridge looks at the 118 communities that ever achieved a population of 2,500 and unravels the many factors that influenced the growth of urban Kansas. He tells how mercantilism dominated urban thinking in territorial days until after statehood, when cities competed for the capital, prisons, universities, and other institutions. He also shows how geography and size were employed by entrepreneurs and government officials to prepare strategies for economic development. And he describes how the railroads especially promoted the founding of cities in the nineteenth century - and how this system has fared since 1950 in the face of globalization and the growth of interstate highways."--BOOK JACKET.

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