Herbert Eugene Bolton : historian of the American borderlands /
This definitive biography offers a new critical assessment of the life, works, and ideas of Herbert E. Bolton (1870-1953), a leading historian of the American West, Mexico, and Latin America. Bolton, a famous pupil of Frederick Jackson Turner, formulated a concept--the borderlands--that is a foundat...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the border lord
- The scholars' hard road
- A gathering at Lake Mendota
- Gone to Texas
- Many roads to California
- In Stephen's grove
- Foundations of empire
- Teachers and students- worlds apart
- Of presidents and politics
- Race, place, and heroes
- Exploration, empire, and patrimony
- The grand patriarch
- bury my heart at Corte Madera
- Western revolt and retirement
- Defending the empire
- The fading pageant
- The emperor departs
- Afterword : the debatable legacy
- Abbreviations used in the notes.