TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wrobel,David M.
TI  - Global West, American Frontier: Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression
T2  - Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture
SN  - 9780826353719
AV  - F595 .G563 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Albuquerque
PB  - University of New Mexico Press
KW  - Travel writing
KW  - West (U.S.)
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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
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