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The Oxford history of the American West / edited by Clyde A. Milner II, Carol A. O'Connor, Martha A. Sandweiss.
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: 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.The visual west / Brian W. Dippie -- The literary west / Thomas J. Lyon -- Speaking for the past / Charles S. Peterson -- Selling the popular myth / Anne M. Butler -- Comparing wests and frontiers / Walter Nugent.
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- Subject:
- West (U.S.) > History.
History (North America)
United States, West.
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- History.
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lummi Library | F 591 .O94 1994 | 229599 | Stacks | Available | - |
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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].