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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, David Wrobel offers a counternarrative to the nation's romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the import...

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Autor principal: Wrobel, David M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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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