A Companion to the American West (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Deverell, William

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to the American West is a rigorous, illuminating introduction to the history of the American West. Twenty-five essays by expert scholars synthesize the best and most provocative work in the field and provide a comprehensive overview of themes and historiography. * Covers the culture, politics, and environment of the American West through periods of migration, settlement, and modernization * Discusses Native Americans and their conflicts and integration with American settlers

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405138482
• Artikelnr.: 38281564

Autorenporträt

William Deverell is Professor of History at the University of Southern California and director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. He is the author of Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910 (1994) and Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past (2004). He co-authored Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region (2000) and The West in the History of the Nation (2000) and co-edited California Progressivism Revisited (1994) and Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (2001).

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