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Cities on the Plains: The Evolution of Urban Kansas
James R. Shortridge
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Hardcover. From Abilene to Wichita and beyond, a constellation of cities glitters across the fertile plains of Kansas. Their story is entwined with that of the state as a whole, and their size and status are rarely questioned. This text relates the history of Kansas' larger communities from the 1850s to the present. Num Pages: 520 pages, 49 photographs, 26 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNK; HBJK; HBT; JFSG; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 839.
From Abilene to Wichita and beyond, a constellation of cities glitters across the fertile plains of Kansas. Their history is entwined with that of the state as a whole, and their size and status are rarely questioned. Yet as James Shortridge reveals, the evolution of urban Kansas remains a largely untold story of competition, rivalry, and metropolitan dreams. Cities on the Plains relates the history of Kansas's larger communities from the 1850s to the present. The first book to provide a comprehensive, comparative account of an entire state's urban development, it shows how Kansas's current hierarchy of cities and urban ... Read more
From Abilene to Wichita and beyond, a constellation of cities glitters across the fertile plains of Kansas. Their history is entwined with that of the state as a whole, and their size and status are rarely questioned. Yet as James Shortridge reveals, the evolution of urban Kansas remains a largely untold story of competition, rivalry, and metropolitan dreams. Cities on the Plains relates the history of Kansas's larger communities from the 1850s to the present. The first book to provide a comprehensive, comparative account of an entire state's urban development, it shows how Kansas's current hierarchy of cities and urban ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
520
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700613120
SKU
V9780700613120
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About James R. Shortridge
James R. Shortridge is professor of geography at the University of Kansas and author of Peopling the Plains: Who Settled Where in Frontier Kansas; The Middle West: Its Meaning in American Culture, winner of the John Brinckerh off Jackson Prize; and Our Town on the Plans; J. J. Pennell's Photographs of Junction City, Kansas, 1893-1922, winner of the AAG's Globe ... Read more
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