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Author : Patricia Limerick
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 14,77 MB
Release : 1987-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393304978
This study corrects the misperceptions of the American West based on representations from novels and films and shows how western history was--and is--a vast economic event.
Author : Patricia Nelson Limerick
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 16,86 MB
Release : 1987
Category : West (U.S.)
ISBN : 9780393023909
"Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." Richard White 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 descendents mean business today. 28 illustrations.
Author : Patricia Nelson Limerick
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,7 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393321029
"Patricia Limerick is simply one of the best writers alive."--Garry Wills
Author : William G. Robbins
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 21,34 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
"A forceful analysis of the role of capitalism in the history of the American West. This is an important contribution to the new western history that should be read by both historians and residents of the American West". -- Journal of American History. "This exciting book should take its place on the shelf next to Patricia Limerick's The Legacy of Conquest". -- Forest & Conservation History.
Author : Anne Farrar Hyde
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 34,27 MB
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803224052
To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little difference: the United States was just another imperial overlord to be assessed and manipulated. This was not, as Empires, Nations, and Families makes clear, virgin wilderness discovered by virtuous Anglo entrepreneurs. Rather, the United States was a newcomer in a place already complicated by vying empires. This book documents the broad family associations that crossed national and ethnic lines and that, along with the river systems of the trans-Mississippi West, formed the basis for a global trade in furs that had operated for hundreds of years before the land became part of the United States. ø Empires, Nations, and Families shows how the world of river and maritime trade effectively shifted political power away from military and diplomatic circles into the hands of local people. Tracing family stories from the Canadian North to the Spanish and Mexican borderlands and from the Pacific Coast to the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, Anne F. Hyde?s narrative moves from the earliest years of the Indian trade to the Mexican War and the gold rush era. Her work reveals how, in the 1850s, immigrants to these newest regions of the United States violently wrested control from Native and other powers, and how conquest and competing demands for land and resources brought about a volatile frontier culture?not at all the peace and prosperity that the new power had promised.
Author : Patricia Nelson Limerick
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN :
Reexamination of the role of the West in U.S. history and of the field of western history itself told by ten historians.
Author : Gary Noy
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 15,91 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803283718
The West has figured in the American imagination under many guises: as the last best place on earth, a refuge, an escape, a land of opportunity, but also as a place of conquest and failure. Where Lewis and Clark saw great possibilities, Native cultures found disappointment and loss. This collection presents the diverse and often contradictory accounts that make up the mosaic of the nineteenth-century American West. From Thomas Hart Benton?s famous speech in the Senate when he argued that non-white civilizations must fall before the western expansion of white Americans to Black Elk?s story of a way of life lost on the frozen ground at Wounded Knee, Gary Noy offers a representative sampling of the many Wests that historians have strug-gled to define for over a century. Distant Horizon chronicles the dusty world of the cowboy, the hard-scrabble existence of the farmer and the settler, and the miner?s vision of golden glory. It examines the independent nature of the explorer and mountain man and the sometimes heroic, sometimes cruel existence of the soldier. We hear the voices of those outside the mainstream of power?women and Westerners of color?and explore the most tragic element of Western history: the confinement, subjugation, and extermination of Native Americans. No other single volume provides as many readings on as many topics in the history of the American West.
Author : Jason E. Pierce
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,73 MB
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1607323966
The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In Making the White Man’s West, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space. Using a nuanced theory of historical “whiteness,” he examines why and how Anglo-Americans dominated the region for a 120-year period. In the early nineteenth century, critics like Zebulon Pike and Washington Irving viewed the West as a “dumping ground” for free blacks and Native Americans, a place where they could be segregated from the white communities east of the Mississippi River. But as immigrant populations and industrialization took hold in the East, white Americans began to view the West as a “refuge for real whites.” The West had the most diverse population in the nation with substantial numbers of American Indians, Hispanics, and Asians, but Anglo-Americans could control these mostly disenfranchised peoples and enjoy the privileges of power while celebrating their presence as providing a unique regional character. From this came the belief in a White Man’s West, a place ideally suited for “real” Americans in the face of changing world. The first comprehensive study to examine the construction of white racial identity in the West, Making the White Man’s West shows how these two visions of the West—as a racially diverse holding cell and a white refuge—shaped the history of the region and influenced a variety of contemporary social issues in the West today.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 39,93 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Ethical relativism
ISBN :
In this paper I will present an argument for the vigorous and critical scholarship of the American West. Proceeding in a roughly chronological fashion, chapter one explores the primary source of western American history--Frederick Jackson Turner's 1893 'frontier thesis'--from the vantage point of the mid-1980s when revisionist scholars announced a 'new western history,' greatly inspired by historian Patricia Nelson Limerick and her 1987 work The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. In chapter two, after describing in fairly broad strokes the nature of the new western history and the debates it provoked, I will home in on the particularly vehement and polemical charges of moral relativism made by historian Gerald D. Nash, framing this episode in the larger context of the longstanding theoretical tension between historicism and absolutism. Chapter three will focus on the new western history's ultimately unfulfilled goal to replace the frontier model of western history with a strictly regional framework, and will compare and contrast more recent works utilizing each of these interpretive tropes. I will then survey work of the past year that focuses on what it means to teach western history in the wake of past controversy, concluding that scholarship of and on the American West continues to offer a profound means of understanding the place of Americans in America, and America in the world.
Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 24,50 MB
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1541672534
"Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope" (Hampton Sides), this masterfully told account of the American West from a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist sets a new standard as it sweeps from the California Gold Rush and beyond. In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. He shows how the migrants' dreams drove them to feats of courage and perseverance that put their stay-at-home cousins to shame-and how those same dreams also drove them to outrageous acts of violence against indigenous peoples and one another. The West was where riches would reward the miner's persistence, the cattleman's courage, the railroad man's enterprise; but El Dorado was at least as elusive in the West as it ever was in the East. Balanced, authoritative, and masterfully told, Dreams of El Dorado sets a new standard for histories of the American West.