Main entry:

Hamer, D. A. (David Allan)

Title & Author:

New towns in the New World : images and perceptions of the nineteenth-century urban frontier / David Hamer.

Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c1990.

Description:

ix, 328 p., [48] p. of plates : ill., facsim. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Columbia history of urban life

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-298).
Urban Frontiers -- The Making of Images of the Urban Frontier -- Old World and New World -- Towns and Social Evolution: Perceptions of the Relationship of Towns to the Evolution of New Sciences -- Towns and Social Evolution of New Societies -- Towns and Social Evolution: The Growth of Towns -- Antipodean Patterns of Urban Development -- Time and Space on the Urban Frontier -- The Town in the Garden -- Towns and the Evolution of Civilization -- The Urban Frontier and the Development of Myths of National Identity.

Summary:

In New Towns in the New World, David Hamer argues that there occurred in the nineteenth century a process of urban settlement in new societies that had causes and characteristics which transcended national boundaries, from their Old World-New World contrasts and conflicts to their attitudes towards "wilderness" and "nature." Hamer breaks new ground by offering both a contemplative and contemporary dimension on the subject. Drawing on materials from four "new societies" of the nineteenth century, the American and Canadian West, Australia and New Zealand, Hamer has analyzed a vast collection of original sources, including travel books, emigrants' guidebooks, novels, art, booster publications, and settlers' reminiscences and letters.

Resources:
Table of contents
Donated in memory of Fred Armstrong
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

0231066201 (hbk.)
9780231066204 (hbk.)

Subject:

Urbanization West (U.S.) History 19th century.
Urbanization Australia History 19th century.
Urbanization Canada History 19th century.
Urbanization New Zealand History 19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.) 19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life Australia 19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life Canada 19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life New Zealand 19th century.
Urbanization History 19th century.
Urbanization United States History 19th century.
Urbanization New Zealand 19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Urbanisation Histoire 19e siècle.
Urbanisation États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Urbanisation Australie Histoire 19e siècle.
Urbanisation Canada Histoire 19e siècle.
Urbanisation Nouvelle-Zélande 19e siècle.
Vie des pionniers.
Urbanisation Nouvelle-Zélande Histoire 19e siècle.
Urbanization
Steden.
Urbanisation 19e siècle.
Urbanisation États-Unis 19e siècle.
Urbanisation Canada 19e siècle.
United States
Australia
Canada
New Zealand
West United States
Frontier and pioneer life Australia History 19th century
Frontier and pioneer life Canada History 19th century
Frontier and pioneer life History 19th century
Frontier and pioneer life New Zealand History 19th century
Frontier and pioneer life United States History 19th century

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Columbia history of urban life.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 55658
Call No.: ID:90-B4123
Status: Available