A companion to the American West [electronic resource]

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서명/저자사항	A companion to the American West [electronic resource] / edited by William Deverell.
개인저자	Deverell, William Francis.
발행사항	Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2004.
형태사항	1 online resource (x, 574 p.) : ill.
총서사항	Blackwell companions to American history
기타형태 저록	Print version: Companion to the American West. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004 0631213570
ISBN	140512895X (electronic bk.) 9781405128957 (electronic bk.) 9781405138482 (electronic bk.) 1405138483 (electronic bk.) 9780631213574 (electronic) 0631213570 (electronic) 9781405165853 1405165855
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	PART I. THINKING THROUGH THE AMERICAN WEST -- The making of the first American West and the unmaking of other realms / Stephen Aron -- Thinking West / Elliot West -- PART II. CONQUEST AND ITS PATTERNS: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- Passion and imagination in the exploration of the American West / James P. Ronda -- Environment and the nineteenth-century West: or, process encounters place / Andrew C. Isenberg -- Engineering the elephant: industrialism and the environment in th11e Greater West / David Igler -- Mining and the nineteenth-century American West / Malcolm J. Rohrbough -- Law and the contact of cultures / Sarah Barringer Gordon -- Native Americans in the nineteenth-century American West / David Rich Lewis -- Western violence / Michael A. Bellesiles -- Bringing it all back home: rethinking the history of women and the nineteenth-century West / Elizabeth Jameson -- Empire and liberty: contradictions and conflicts in nineteenth-century western political history / Jeffrey Ostler -- PART III. EXCEPTIONALISM OR REGIONALISM? THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN WEST -- African Americans in the twentieth-century West / Doublas Flamming -- The West and workers, 1870-1930 / James N. Gregory -- Societies to match the scenery: twentieth-century environmental history in the American West / Dan Flores -- Where to draw the line? The pacific, place, and the US West / Chris Friday -- Religion and the American West / Philip Goff -- Transients and stickers: the problem of community in the American West / Anne Hyde -- American Indians in the twentieth century / Peter Iverson -- The New Deal's West / Karen R. Merrill -- Art, ideology, and the West / Douglas R. Nickel -- "The West plays West": western tourism and the landscape of leisure / Marguerite S. Shaffer -- Hispanics and Latinos / Ramo?n A. Gutie?rrez -- City lights: urban history in the West / Robert O. Self -- Politics and the twentieth-century American West / William Deverell -- The literary West and the twentieth century / David M. Wrobel.
요약	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.
주제명(지명)	West (U.S.) --History.
일반주제명	HISTORY --State & Local. Histo?ria dos estados unidos --Regia?o oeste.
분류기호(DDC)	978
언어	영어
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