{"product_id":"a-companion-to-the-american-west-hardback-9780631213574","title":"A Companion to the American West (Hardback) 9780631213574","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Companion to the American West\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWilliam Deverell (Edited by), W Deverell (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631213574, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 December 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e584 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.3 x 17.5 x 3.9 cm, 1.152 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers the culture, politics, and environment of the American West through periods of migration, settlement, and modernization\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses Native Americans and their conflicts and integration with American settlers\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam Deverell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Thinking Through the American West\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Making of the First American West and the Unmaking of Other Realms 5\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Aron\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Thinking West 25\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElliott West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Conquest and Its Patterns: The Nineteenth Century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Passion and Imagination in the Exploration of the American West 53\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames P. Ronda\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Environment and the Nineteenth-Century West: Or, Process Encounters Place 77\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew C. Isenberg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Engineering the Elephant: Industrialism and the Environment in the Greater West 93\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Igler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Mining and the Nineteenth-Century American West 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMalcolm J. Rohrbough\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Law and the Contact of Cultures 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSarah Barringer Gordon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Native Americans in the Nineteenth-Century American West 143\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Rich Lewis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Western Violence 162\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael A. Bellesiles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Bringing It All Back Home: Rethinking the History of Women and the Nineteenth-Century West 179\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElizabeth Jameson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Empire and Liberty: Contradictions and Conflicts in Nineteenth-Century Western Political History 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJeffrey Ostler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Exceptionalism or Regionalism? The Twentieth-Century American West\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West 221\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDouglas Flamming\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The West and Workers, 1870–1930 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames N. Gregory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Societies to Match the Scenery: Twentieth-Century Environmental History in the American West 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDan Flores\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Where to Draw the Line? The Pacific, Place, and the US West 271\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChris Friday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Religion and the American West 286\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilip Goff\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Transients and Stickers: The Problem of Community in the American West 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnne Hyde\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 American Indians in the Twentieth Century 329\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Iverson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 The New Deal’s West 346\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaren R. Merrill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Art, Ideology, and the West 361\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDouglas R. 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