Many Wests Place, Culture, and Regional Identity

Name: Many Wests Place, Culture, and Regional Identity
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ISBN: 9780700608621

ISBN-10: 0700608621

ISBN-13: 9780700608621

Edition: 1997

Authors: David M. Wrobel, Michael S. Steiner

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Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication date: 10/30/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 398
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.13" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Preface



Many Wests: Discovering a Dynamic Western Regionalism




A Fishy Proposition: Regional Identity in the Pacific Northwest




When the Desert Won't Bloom: Environmental Limitation and the Great Basin




Round Pegs in Square Holes: The Rocky Mountains and Extractive Industry




The Expectations of Others: Struggles Toward a Sense of Place in the Northern Plains




The Telltale Southern Plains




Searching for an Angle of Repose: Women, Work, and Creativity in Early Montana




Mountain, Plain, Desert, River: The Snake River Region as a Western Crossroads




Forging a Cosmopolitan Civic Culture: The Regional Identity of San Francisco and Northern California




Privileging the Mission over the Mexican: The Rise of Regional Identity in Southern California




Region and Ethnicity: Topographical Identities in Texas




The Other Northwest: The Regional Identity of a Canadian Province




Noncontiguous Wests: Alaska and Hawai'i




Cuentos de la Tierra Encantada: Magic and Realism in the Southwest Borderlands



List of Contributors


Index