Under an Open Sky Rethinking America's Western Past

Name: Under an Open Sky Rethinking America's Western Past
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ISBN: 9780393310634

ISBN-10: 0393310639

ISBN-13: 9780393310634

Edition: 1993

Authors: William Cronon, Miles Jay, George Jay, Gitlin Jay

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The history of the American West is being transformed by exciting new ideas, new questions, new scholarship. For many years this field was dominated by popular images of the lone cowboy and the savage Indian, and by Frederick Jackson Turner's concept of the frontier as a steadily advancing source of democracy and social renewal. But now historians and even the merchants of popular culture are reshaping our views of the frontier and the West by taking up a rich array of new subjects, including the stories of diverse peoples as well as the history of the land itself. A new generation of scholars is reformulating the broader questions also: What was the significance of the frontier in American…

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List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/17/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.50" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface



Becoming West: Toward a New Meaning for Western History



Kennecott Journey: The Paths out of Town



To Hear an Old Voice: Rediscovering Native Americans in American History



On the Boundaries of Empire: Connecting the West to Its Imperial Past



Americans, Mexicans, Metis: A Community Approach to the Comparative Study of North American Frontiers



Landscape of Enclaves: Race Relations in the West, 1865-1990



Engendering the West



Religion in the American West



Making the Most of Words: Verbal Activity and Western America



Views and Reviews: Western Art and Western History



The View from Wisdom: Four Layers of History and Regional Identity



History for the Masses: Commercializing the Western Past



Is There a Twentieth-Century West?



Westering in the Twenty-first Century: Speculations on the Future of the Western Past



Notes


Contributors


Index