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Global West, American Frontier : Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression /
Looking at both European and American travelers' accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville's Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways, this book offers a counternarrative to the nation's romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importanc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
2013
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| Colección: | Calvin P. Horn lectures in Western history and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Looking at both European and American travelers' accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville's Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways, this book offers a counternarrative to the nation's romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to American history, who deserve new attention. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 312 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-295) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780826353719 0826353711 129984300X 9781299843004 9780826353702 0826353703 |