The Oxford history of the American West

Milner, Clyde A., 1948- (Added Author). O'Connor, Carol A., 1946- (Added Author). Sandweiss, Martha A. (Added Author).

Summary: This book brings together the work of twenty-eight leading western historians who explore this area from a dazzling number of perspectives. They provide insightful portraits of the West as a distinctive place of many peoples and of many terrains. The authors provide important insights about many long-standing controversies, and they offer not only the fruits of the latest thinking about the West, but also a vivid sense of how people actually lived.--[book jacket].

Record details

ISBN: 0195059689
ISBN: 9780195059687
ISBN: 0195112121
ISBN: 9780195112122
Physical Description: print
xiii, 872 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Native peoples and native histories / Peter Iverson -- The Spanish-Mexican rim / David J. Weber -- Empires of trade, hinterlands of settlement / Jay Gitlin -- American frontier / Elliott West -- National initiatives / Clyde A. Milner II -- Entering the global economy / Keith L. Bryant, Jr. -- Animals and enterprise / Richard White -- An agricultural empire / Allan G. Bogue -- A saga of families / Kathleen Neils Conzen -- Religion and spirituality / Ferenc M. Szasz, Margaret Connell Szasz -- Violence / Richard Maxwell Brown -- Wage earners and wealth makers / Carlos A. Schwantes -- The federal presence / Carl Abbott -- Politics and protests / Michael P. Malone, F. Ross Peterson -- A region of cities / Carol A. O'Connor -- Alaska and Hawaii / Victoria Wyatt -- Landscapes of abundance and scarcity / William Cronon -- Contemporary peoples/contested places / Sarah Deutsch, George J. Sanchez, Gary Y. Okihiro.