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The Not So Wild, Wild West : Property Rights on the Frontier /
Mention of the American West usually evokes images of rough and tumble cowboys, ranchers, and outlaws. In contrast, The Not So Wild, Wild West casts America's frontier history in a new framework that emphasizes the creation of institutions, both formal and informal, that facilitated cooperation...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- One. Heroes, Villains, and Real Cowboys
- Two. The Institutions That Tamed the West
- Three. Property Rights in Indian Country
- Four. Might Takes Rights in Indian Country
- Five. Soft Gold: Traders, Trappers, and Hunters
- Six. There's Property Rights in Them Thar Hills
- Seven. Wagon-Train Governments
- Eight. Cowboys and Contracts
- Nine. Home on the Range
- Ten. Making the Desert Bloom
- Eleven. New Frontiers
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index