Under Western Skies Nature and History in the American West

Name: Under Western Skies Nature and History in the American West
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ISBN: 9780195086713

ISBN-10: 0195086716

ISBN-13: 9780195086713

Edition: 1992 (Reprint)

Authors: Donald Worster

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For decades, the story of the American West has been told as a glorious tale of conquest and rugged individualism--the triumph of progress. But recently, a new school of historians has challenged this view, creating what is known as the "new western history," an approach that gives a central role to the environment, native peoples, and the concentration of power in the hands of a few. Foremost among these historians is Donald Worster. In Worster's writings, the western past emerges not as a march of Manifest Destiny but rather as an unfolding relationship between humankind and nature. In Under Western Skies, Worster provides an eloquent introduction to the changing traditions of western…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/20/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 7.95" wide x 5.31" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English




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New West, True West



Cowboy Ecology



Hydraulic Society in California



Hoover Dam: A Study in Domination



Freedom and Want: The Western Paradox



Grassland Follies: Agricultural Capitalism on the Plains



The Black Hills: Sacred or Profane?



Alaska: The Underworld Erupts



Grounds for Identity



A Country Without Secrets


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