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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hurtado, Albert L., 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.