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Ritual ground : Bent's Old Fort, world formation, and the annexation of the Southwest /
From about 1830 to 1849, Bent's Old Fort, located in present-day Colorado, was the largest trading post in the Southwest and the mountain-plains region. Although the raw enterprise and improvisation that characterized the American westward movement seem to have little to do with ritual, Douglas...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1996.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | From about 1830 to 1849, Bent's Old Fort, located in present-day Colorado, was the largest trading post in the Southwest and the mountain-plains region. Although the raw enterprise and improvisation that characterized the American westward movement seem to have little to do with ritual, Douglas Comer argues that the fort grew and prospered because of ritual and that ritual shaped the subsequent history of the region to an astonishing extent. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 321 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-309) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520918702 0520918703 0585057516 9780585057514 9780520207745 0520207742 9780520204294 0520204298 |