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The American West : a new interpretive history / Robert V. Hine, John Mack Faragher and Jon T. Coleman. [print]

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Lamar series in western historyPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)2017.Edition: Second editionDescription: xvi, 503 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780300185171
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • F591.C692.A447 2017
Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
A new world begins -- Contest of cultures -- The struggle of empires -- The land and its markers -- Finding purchase -- War and destiny -- Machine -- A search for community -- The urban frontier -- New frontiers -- As the west goes ... -- "It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at."
Subject: The newly revised second edition of this concise, engaging, and unorthodox history of America's West has been updated to incorporate new research, including recent scholarship on Native American lives and cultures. An ideal text for course work, it presents the West as both frontier and region, examining the clashing of different cultures and ethnic groups that occurred in the western territories from the first Columbian contacts between Native Americans and Europeans up to the end of the twentieth century.
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION F591.H564.A447 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001903109

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: dreams and homelands -- A new world begins -- Contest of cultures -- The struggle of empires -- The land and its markers -- Finding purchase -- War and destiny -- Machine -- A search for community -- The urban frontier -- New frontiers -- As the west goes ... -- "It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at."

The newly revised second edition of this concise, engaging, and unorthodox history of America's West has been updated to incorporate new research, including recent scholarship on Native American lives and cultures. An ideal text for course work, it presents the West as both frontier and region, examining the clashing of different cultures and ethnic groups that occurred in the western territories from the first Columbian contacts between Native Americans and Europeans up to the end of the twentieth century.

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