Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 474 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates)
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9780520910980
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0520910982
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0585200475
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9780585200477
Inhalt:
Founding the Far West is an ambitious and vividly written narrative of the early years of statehood and statesmanship in three pivotal western territories. Johnson offers a model example of a new approach to history that is transforming our ideas of how America moved west, one that breaks the mold of "regional" and "frontier" histories to show why Western history is also American history. Johnson explores the conquest, imm
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-459) and index
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I: Politics and Society. 1: Politics in a Divided World: California, 1769-1840. 2: Farming and Politics: Oregon, 1835-1857. 3: "The Land for the Old Californian": Nevada, 1849-1864 -- II: Personality, Ideology, and Political Culture. 4: A New Regime: California, 1849. Diversity and Gold Rush Democracy. The Dilemmas of Democratic Freedom. 5: A Liberal Commonwealth: Oregon, 1857. Nineteenth-Century Commonwealthmen. Virtue and Interest. 6: Between Golden and Gilded Ages: Nevada, 1864. The Old Californians. The Corporation and the Individual -- III: History and Memory. 7: Progress and Poverty: California, 1849-1885. 8: Crisis and Renewal: Oregon, 1857-1890. 9: Industry and Exodus: Nevada, 1864-1885.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0520073487
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Johnson, David Alan, 1950- Founding the Far West Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992 ISBN 0520073487
Sprache:
Englisch
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