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The legacy of conquest : the unbroken past of the American West / Patricia Nelson Limerick.
The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality--in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here she interprets the stories and the characters in a new way: the trappers, traders, Indians, farmers, oilmen, cowboys, and sheriffs of the Old West "meant business" in more ways than one, and their descendants mean business today.
Record details
- ISBN: 0393304973
- ISBN: 9780393304978
- Physical Description: 396 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, 2006.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Originally published: 1987."With a new preface"--Cover.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Empire of innocence -- \Property values -- \Denial and dependence -- \Uncertain enterprises -- \The meeting ground of past and present -- \The persistence of natives -- \America the borderland -- \Racialism ion the run -- \Mankind the manager -- \The burdens of western American history.
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- West (U.S.) > History.
West (U.S.) > Historiography.
United States, West.
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Northwest Indian College.
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| Lummi Library | F 591 .L56 1987 | 243329 | Stacks | Available | - |
| Lummi Library | F 591 .L56 1987 | 286709 | Stacks | Reshelving | - |
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