Taking the Land to Make the City: A Bicoastal History of North America
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University of Texas Press, 2019.
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Mary P. Ryan., & Mary P. Ryan|AUTHOR. (2019). Taking the Land to Make the City: A Bicoastal History of North America . University of Texas Press.

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