Screen LibraryA companion to the American West
A rigorous introduction to the history of the American West. Over 20 essays by expert scholars synthesize the best work in the field. Each essay covers a subtopic of American Western history, its major concerns and its major works to provide an overview of themes and historiography.
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Blackwell companions to American history
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470996478 |
| Summary: |
A rigorous introduction to the history of the American West. Over 20 essays by expert scholars synthesize the best work in the field. Each essay covers a subtopic of American Western history, its major concerns and its major works to provide an overview of themes and historiography. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (x, 574 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
140512895X 9781405128957 9781405138482 1405138483 9780631213574 0631213570 9781405165853 1405165855 1280284374 9781280284373 9780470996478 0470996471 |
| Index Number: | F591 |
| CLC: | K712.9 |
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The making of the first American West and the unmaking of other realms / Thinking West / Passion and imagination in the exploration of the American West / Environment and the nineteenth-century West: or, process encounters place / Engineering the elephant: industrialism and the environment in the Greater West / Mining and the nineteenth-century American West / Law and the contact of cultures / Native Americans in the nineteenth-century American West / Western violence / Bringing it all back home: rethinking the history of women and the nineteenth-century West / Empire and liberty: contradictions and conflicts in nineteenth-century western political history / African Americans in the twentieth-century West / The West and workers, 1870-1930 / Societies to match the scenery: twentieth-century environmental history in the American West / Where to draw the line? The pacific, place, and the US West / Religion and the American West / Transients and stickers: the problem of community in the American West / American Indians in the twentieth century / The New Deal's West / Art, ideology, and the West / "The West plays West": western tourism and the landscape of leisure / Hispanics and Latinos / City lights: urban history in the West / Politics and the twentieth-century American West / The literary West and the twentieth century / |