"It's your misfortune and none of my own" : a new history of the American West

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"It's your misfortune and none of my own" : a new history of the American West / by Richard White.

White, Richard, 1947- (Author).

Summary:

This book embodies the theme that, as succeeding groups have occupied the American West and shaped the land, they have done so without regard for present inhabitants.

Record details

ISBN: 0806125675
ISBN: 9780806125671
Physical Description: xix, 644 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 26 cm
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Norman ; University of Oklahoma Press, 1993, c1991.
Copyright: �1991

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: pt. 1. The Origins of the West -- 1. The Seeds of the West -- 2. Empires and Indians -- pt. 2. The Federal Government and the Nineteenth-Century West -- 3. The Conquest of the West -- 4. The Federal Government and the Indians -- 5. Exploring the Land -- 6. Distributing the Land -- 7. Territorial Government -- pt. 3. Transformation and Development -- 8. The Transformation of Western Society: Migration -- 9. Transforming the Land -- 10. The West and the World Economy -- 11. The Economic Structure of the West -- 12. New Communities and the Western Social Order -- 13. Social Conflict -- 14. Western Politics -- pt. 4. The Bureaucratic Revolution in the West -- 15. At the Centers of Power -- 16. On the Peripheries of Power -- pt. 5. Transforming the West -- 17. The Depression -- 18. World War II and Its Aftermath: Reshaping the West -- pt. 6. The Modern West -- 19. Rise of the Metropolitan West -- 20. The West and the Nation -- 21. The Imagined West.
Awards Note:: Western Heritage Award for Nonfiction, 1992

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Subject:: West (U.S.) > History.
United States, West.
Genre:: History.

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