Carl Abbott

About The Author

Carl Abbott is professor of urban studies and planning at Portland State University and the coeditor of the Pacific Historical Review. He is the author of numerous books on urban history and the development of cities in the United States.

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Books by Carl Abbott

How Cities Won the West

Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America

By Carl Abbott

Cities rather than individual pioneers have been the driving force in the settlement and economic development of the western half of North America. Throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, western urban centers served as starting points for conquest and settlement. As the...

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