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Frontier Cities: Encounters at the Crossroads of Empire

Viktor M. Stoll

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Challenging Frederick Turner’s “Frontier Thesis” (1893), Richard C. Wade claimed in The Urban Frontier (1959) that “towns were the spearheads of the frontier … planted far in advance of the line of...

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Challenging Frederick Turner’s “Frontier Thesis” (1893), Richard C. Wade claimed in The Urban Frontier (1959) that “towns were the spearheads of the frontier … planted far in advance of the line of...

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Challenging Frederick Turner’s “Frontier Thesis” (1893), Richard C. Wade claimed in The Urban Frontier (1959) that “towns were the spearheads of the frontier … planted far in advance of the line of...

Key concepts: Frontier, Empire, History, Economic history, Economic geography, Sociology, Geography, Archaeology

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