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, 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.
Temas:
Travel.
Public opinion.
Historiography.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Voyage > Art d'ecrire > Historiographie.
Travel writing > Historiography.
West United States.
États-Unis (Ouest) > Descriptions et voyages.
West (U.S.) > Public opinion.
West (U.S.) > Historiography.
West (U.S.) > Description and travel.
Electronic books.
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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