Global West, American Frontier Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression.
Wrobel, David M.
Global West, American Frontier Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression. - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (330 pages) - Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture .
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Inroduction: Roads Traveled; Beyond the Mythic West; Roads Traveled and Not Traveled; PART ONE: The Global West of the Nineteenth Century; 1: Exceptionalism and Globalism: Revisiting the Traveler; Exceptionalism and Empire; Resituating the Traveler; In Europe and Around the World; 2: The World in the West, The West in the World: Travels in the Age of Empire; From the African Continent to the Mormon Kingdom; From the Western Rockies to the Near and Far East; Across the Plains, Around the World, and Back to Africa PART TWO: The American Frontier of the Twentieth Century3: ""No, Adventure is Not Dead"": Frontier Journeys in the Last Great Age of Exploration; Global Frontiers; From Hawaii to Africa; On the River of Doubt; Coda: In Asia; 4: The End of the West?: Automotive Frontiers of the Early Twentieth Century; The Pioneering Strain; The Great Race and the Acids of Materialism; The Acids of Modernity; Of Tourists and Travel Writers; 5: Rediscovering the West: Regional Guides in the Depression Years; The Promise of the West; Portrait of a Nation and a Region Tour 1: California Coast to the Lone Star StateTour 2: Southern Plains to the Northern Border; Tour 3: Rocky Mountains and Great Basin; Tour 4: Pacific Northwest to the Last Frontier; Coda: Returning to Native Grounds; Conclusion: Enduring Roads; Premature Endings: The Presumed Death of the Travel Book; Enduring Western Roads; Legacies of the Global West and the American Frontier; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; Back Cover
Looking at both European and American travelers' accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville's Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counternarrative to the nation's romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to our history who deserve new attention.
9780826353719
Travel writing.
West (U.S.).
Travel writing--Historiography.
Electronic Books.
F595 / .G563 2013
Global West, American Frontier Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression. - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (330 pages) - Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Inroduction: Roads Traveled; Beyond the Mythic West; Roads Traveled and Not Traveled; PART ONE: The Global West of the Nineteenth Century; 1: Exceptionalism and Globalism: Revisiting the Traveler; Exceptionalism and Empire; Resituating the Traveler; In Europe and Around the World; 2: The World in the West, The West in the World: Travels in the Age of Empire; From the African Continent to the Mormon Kingdom; From the Western Rockies to the Near and Far East; Across the Plains, Around the World, and Back to Africa PART TWO: The American Frontier of the Twentieth Century3: ""No, Adventure is Not Dead"": Frontier Journeys in the Last Great Age of Exploration; Global Frontiers; From Hawaii to Africa; On the River of Doubt; Coda: In Asia; 4: The End of the West?: Automotive Frontiers of the Early Twentieth Century; The Pioneering Strain; The Great Race and the Acids of Materialism; The Acids of Modernity; Of Tourists and Travel Writers; 5: Rediscovering the West: Regional Guides in the Depression Years; The Promise of the West; Portrait of a Nation and a Region Tour 1: California Coast to the Lone Star StateTour 2: Southern Plains to the Northern Border; Tour 3: Rocky Mountains and Great Basin; Tour 4: Pacific Northwest to the Last Frontier; Coda: Returning to Native Grounds; Conclusion: Enduring Roads; Premature Endings: The Presumed Death of the Travel Book; Enduring Western Roads; Legacies of the Global West and the American Frontier; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; Back Cover
Looking at both European and American travelers' accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville's Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counternarrative to the nation's romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to our history who deserve new attention.
9780826353719
Travel writing.
West (U.S.).
Travel writing--Historiography.
Electronic Books.
F595 / .G563 2013