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Empires’ city-building and the 1792 intervention of Aupaumut's book
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Empires’ city-building and the 1792 intervention of Aupaumut's book

Barbara Eckstein
Urban history, Vol.50(1), pp.76-97
02/2023
DOI: 10.1017/S0963926821000493
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Abstract Following indigenous thought, this article urges readers to understand that the past lies before us, more knowable than our ideologies ordinarily allow. The article specifically asserts that if, for England, imperialism was the last model of city-building, in the United States it was the first. A pattern of ‘improvement’ financed by negative externalities established from first contact remains visible, especially in US metropolitan areas. The article's example is one site in Ohio. Indicative of virtually all US metropolitan areas, it has nonetheless a specific history that includes an occasion, recorded in negotiator Hendrick Aupaumut's 1792 narrative, when a break from the pattern was possible.
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