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A companion to the American West /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2004.
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| Colección: | Blackwell companions to American history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.