Companion to the American West

Name: Companion to the American West
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ISBN: 9781405156530

ISBN-10: 1405156538

ISBN-13: 9781405156530

Edition: 2007

Authors: William F. Deverell, Michael A. Bellesiles, Douglas Flamming, Dan Flores, Chris Friday

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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.

Book details

List price: $58.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/16/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 584
Size: 8.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English



Notes on Contributors


Introduction




Thinking Through the American West



The Making of the First American West and the Unmaking of Other Realms




Thinking West




Conquest and Its Patterns: The Nineteenth Century



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




Exceptionalism or Regionalism? The Twentieth-Century American West



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



Bibliography


Index