Power and Promise The Changing American West

Name: Power and Promise The Changing American West
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ISBN: 9780321080622

ISBN-10: 0321080629

ISBN-13: 9780321080622

Edition: 2008

Authors: Gary Clayton Anderson, Kathleen P. Chamberlain

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The Changing Westblends social, political, intellectual and environmental history to offer an in-depth study of this often mythic region and its peoples, from pre-Columbian times to the 21 st century.nbsp; User-friendly, streamlined and attentive to the most recent scholarship, this comprehensive history of the American West takes a new approach goes beyond the Turner thesis of the American Frontier

Book details

List price: $78.60
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Kathleen P. Chamberlain, who learned Navajo to complete her research for this book, is associate professor of history at Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti.




The First Westerners: The Native Americans



The European Invasion of the West 1519-1800



Americans and the Early Development of the West



The Western Pioneer and the Early American Occupation of the West



The War For the West: The Civil and Indian Wars



The Post-War West: Railroads and Opportunity



The Search for Law and Political Order in the West, 1850-1900



The Social and Multi-cultural Context of a Changing American West



The Western Progressives, 1890-1929



The West of the 1930s: Depression and New Deal



A National Trend-Setter: The Modern West, 1940-1980



An Ever-Changing American West: 1980 and into the Twenty-First Century