A Companion to the American West (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Deverell, William

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to the American West is a rigorous, illuminatingintroduction to the history of the American West. Twenty-fiveessays by expert scholars synthesize the best and most provocativework in the field and provide a comprehensive overview of themesand historiography. * * Covers the culture, politics, and environment of the AmericanWest through periods of migration, settlement, andmodernization * Discusses Native Americans and their conflicts and integrationwith American settlers

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 08.05.2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405138482
• Artikelnr.: 38281564

Autorenporträt

William Deverell is Associate Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology. He is the author of Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910 (1994) and of Whitewashed Adobe: Los Angeles and the Remaking of the Mexican Landscape, 1850-1940 (2003). With Greg Hise, he has co-authored Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region (2000) and co-edited Land of Sunshine: Toward an Environmental History of Los Angeles (2003). With Tom Sitton, he has co-edited California Progressivism Revisited (1994) and Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (2001). With Anne Hyde, he has co-edited The West in the History of the Nation (2000). Professor Deverell is the chairman of the California Council for the Humanities and the 2002-2003 Fellow of the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation of Los Angeles. In 2004-2005, he will be the Frederick W. Beinecke Senior Research Fellow in Western American History at Yale University.
California Institute of Technology

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: William Deverell (California Institute ofTechnology).

Part I: Thinking Through the American West.

Part II: Conquest and Its Patterns: The Nineteenth Century.

Part III: Exceptionalism or Regionalism? The Twentieth CenturyAmerican West

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Introduction: William Deverell (California Institute of Technology).Part I: Thinking Through the American West.Part II: Conquest and Its Patterns: The Nineteenth Century.Part III: Exceptionalism or Regionalism? The Twentieth Century American West