| Description |
1 online resource (x, 574 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Blackwell companions to American history |
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Blackwell companions to American history.
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| Contents |
PART I. THINKING THROUGH THE AMERICAN WEST -- The making of the first American West and the unmaking of other realms / Stephen Aron -- Thinking West / Elliot West -- PART II. CONQUEST AND ITS PATTERNS: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- Passion and imagination in the exploration of the American West / James P. Ronda -- Environment and the nineteenth-century West: or, process encounters place / Andrew C. Isenberg -- Engineering the elephant: industrialism and the environment in the Greater West / David Igler -- Mining and the nineteenth-century American West / Malcolm J. Rohrbough -- Law and the contact of cultures / Sarah Barringer Gordon -- Native Americans in the nineteenth-century American West / David Rich Lewis -- Western violence / Michael A. Bellesiles -- Bringing it all back home: rethinking the history of women and the nineteenth-century West / Elizabeth Jameson -- Empire and liberty: contradictions and conflicts in nineteenth-century western political history / Jeffrey Ostler -- PART III. EXCEPTIONALISM OR REGIONALISM? THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN WEST -- African Americans in the twentieth-century West / Doublas Flamming -- The West and workers, 1870-1930 / James N. Gregory -- Societies to match the scenery: twentieth-century environmental history in the American West / Dan Flores -- Where to draw the line? The pacific, place, and the US West / Chris Friday -- Religion and the American West / Philip Goff -- Transients and stickers: the problem of community in the American West / Anne Hyde -- American Indians in the twentieth century / Peter Iverson -- The New Deal's West / Karen R. Merrill -- Art, ideology, and the West / Douglas R. Nickel -- "The West plays West": western tourism and the landscape of leisure / Marguerite S. Shaffer -- Hispanics and Latinos / Ramón A. Gutiérrez -- City lights: urban history in the West / Robert O. Self -- Politics and the twentieth-century American West / William Deverell -- The literary West and the twentieth century / David M. Wrobel |
| Summary |
A rigorous introduction to the history of the American West. Over 20 essays by expert scholars synthesize the best work in the field. Each essay covers a subtopic of American Western history, its major concerns and its major works to provide an overview of themes and historiography |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- State & Local.
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História dos estados unidos -- Região oeste.
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| SUBJECT |
West (U.S.) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146151
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| Subject |
West United States
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USA -- Weststaaten
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États-Unis (ouest) -- Histoire -- Guides, manuels, etc.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Deverell, William, 1962-
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| LC no. |
2003020378 |
| ISBN |
140512895X |
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9781405128957 |
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9781405138482 |
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1405138483 |
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9780631213574 |
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0631213570 |
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9781405165853 |
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1405165855 |
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1280284374 |
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9781280284373 |
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9780470996478 |
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0470996471 |
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9786610284375 |
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6610284377 |
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1780340435 |
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9781780340432 |
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