Global West, American Frontier : Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression /

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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wrobel, David M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013
Colección:Calvin P. Horn lectures in Western history and culture.
Temas:
Travel writing > Historiography.
Voyage > Art d'écrire > Historiographie.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Historiography.
Public opinion.
Travel.
West (U.S.) > Description and travel.
West (U.S.) > Historiography.
West (U.S.) > Public opinion.
États-Unis (Ouest) > Descriptions et voyages.
West United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Roads Traveled. Beyond the Mythic West ; Roads Traveled and Not Traveled
  • Exceptionalism and Globalism : Revisiting the Traveler
  • The World in the West, The West in the World : Travels in the Age of Empire
  • "'No, Adventure is Not Dead'" : Frontier Journeys in the Last Great Age of Exploration
  • The End of the West? : Automotive Frontiers of the Early Twentieth Century
  • Rediscovering the West : Regional Guides in the Depression Years
  • Conclusion : Enduring Roads.

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