Umfang:
Online-Ressource (586 p.)
ISBN:
9780631213574
Serie:
Blackwell companions to American history
Inhalt:
A Companion to the American West is a rigorous, illuminating introduction to the history of the American West. Twenty-five essays by expert scholars synthesize the best and most provocative work in the field and provide a comprehensive overview of themes and historiography. Covers the culture, politics, and environment of the American West through periods of migration, settlement, and modernization Discusses Native Americans and their conflicts and integration with American settlers
Inhalt:
A Companion to the American West is a rigorous, illuminating introduction to the history of the American West. Twenty-five essays by expert scholars synthesize the best and most provocative work in the field and provide a comprehensive overview of themes and historiography. Covers the culture, politics, and environment of the American West through periods of migration, settlement, and modernization Discusses Native Americans and their conflicts and integration with American settlers
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 The Making of the First American West and the Unmaking of Other Realms; 2 Thinking West; 3 Passion and Imagination in the Exploration of the American West; 4 Environment and the Nineteenth-Century West: Or, Process Encounters Place; 5 Engineering the Elephant: Industrialism and the Environment in the Greater West; 6 Mining and the Nineteenth-Century American West; 7 Law and the Contact of Cultures; 8 Native Americans in the Nineteenth-Century American West; 9 Western Violence
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10 Bringing It All Back Home: Rethinking the History of Women and the Nineteenth-Century West11 Empire and Liberty: Contradictions and Conflicts in Nineteenth-Century Western Political History; 12 African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West; 13 The West and Workers, 1870-1930; 14 Societies to Match the Scenery: Twentieth-Century Environmental History in the American West; 15 Where to Draw the Line? The Pacific, Place, and the US West; 16 Religion and the American West; 17 Transients and Stickers: The Problem of Community in the American West; 18 American Indians in the Twentieth Century
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19 The New Deal's West20 Art, Ideology, and the West; 21 "The West Plays West": Western Tourism and the Landscape of Leisure; 22 Hispanics and Latinos; 23 City Lights: Urban History in the West; 24 Politics and the Twentieth-Century American West; 25 The Literary West and the Twentieth Century; Bibliography; Index;
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781405138482
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe A Companion to the American West
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
