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A Companion to the American West
William Deverell (Edited by), W Deverell (Author)
9780631213574, Wiley
Hardback, published 17 December 2003
584 pages
25.3 x 17.5 x 3.9 cm, 1.152 kg
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.
Notes on Contributors viii Introduction 1 Part I Thinking Through the American West 1 The Making of the First American West and the Unmaking of Other Realms 5 2 Thinking West 25 Part II Conquest and Its Patterns: The Nineteenth Century 3 Passion and Imagination in the Exploration of the American West 53 4 Environment and the Nineteenth-Century West: Or, Process Encounters Place 77 5 Engineering the Elephant: Industrialism and the Environment in the Greater West 93 6 Mining and the Nineteenth-Century American West 112 7 Law and the Contact of Cultures 130 8 Native Americans in the Nineteenth-Century American West 143 9 Western Violence 162 10 Bringing It All Back Home: Rethinking the History of Women and the Nineteenth-Century West 179 11 Empire and Liberty: Contradictions and Conflicts in Nineteenth-Century Western Political History 200 Part III Exceptionalism or Regionalism? The Twentieth-Century American West 12 African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West 221 13 The West and Workers, 1870–1930 240 14 Societies to Match the Scenery: Twentieth-Century Environmental History in the American West 256 15 Where to Draw the Line? The Pacific, Place, and the US West 271 16 Religion and the American West 286 17 Transients and Stickers: The Problem of Community in the American West 304 18 American Indians in the Twentieth Century 329 19 The New Deal’s West 346 20 Art, Ideology, and the West 361 21 “The West Plays West”: Western Tourism and the Landscape of Leisure 375 22 Hispanics and Latinos 390 23 City Lights: Urban History in the West 412 24 Politics and the Twentieth-Century American West 442 25 The Literary West and the Twentieth Century 460 Bibliography 481 Index 553
William Deverell
Stephen Aron
Elliott West
James P. Ronda
Andrew C. Isenberg
David Igler
Malcolm J. Rohrbough
Sarah Barringer Gordon
David Rich Lewis
Michael A. Bellesiles
Elizabeth Jameson
Jeffrey Ostler
Douglas Flamming
James N. Gregory
Dan Flores
Chris Friday
Philip Goff
Anne Hyde
Peter Iverson
Karen R. Merrill
Douglas R. Nickel
Marguerite S. Shaffer
Ramón A. Gutiérrez
Robert O. Self
William Deverell
David M. Wrobel
Subject Areas: History [HB]
