{"product_id":"continental-reckoning-the-american-west-in-the-age-of-expansion-hardback-9781496233585","title":"Continental Reckoning; The American West in the Age of Expansion (Hardback) 9781496233585","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eContinental Reckoning\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe American West in the Age of Expansion\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eElliott West (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496233585\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 February 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e704 pages, 21 photographs, 29 illustrations, 12 maps, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 4.7 cm, 1.206 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“Elliott West has delivered a big book on a big topic: a history of the trans-Mississippi West from the 1840s to the late nineteenth century . . . . Despite its nearly six hundred pages, \u003ci\u003eContinental Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e is consistently engaging. As West has demonstrated in a shelf of important books, he has a discerning eye for the telling detail. . . . The book is a pleasure to read.”-John Mack Faragher, \u003ci\u003eWestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Elliott West’s \u003ci\u003eContinental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion\u003c\/i\u003e was described by the [Bancroft Prize] jury as ‘a searing narrative explaining how the republic became a transcontinental nation,’ through a ‘vast racial, social and political reordering’ that redefined citizenship and the relationship between government, industry, and the people.”-\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"By the final chapter of \u003ci\u003eContinental Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e, the reader should pause and realize they have read one of the most important contributions to the American historiography published in the past half-century. Historians of America and the West will recognize that Elliott West, one of the most respected scholars in his field the past 40 years, has accomplished a great deal in his career, but will remember \u003ci\u003eContinental Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e as his master work, truly a magnum opus of his highly lauded scholarly career.\"-Stuart Rosebrook, \u003ci\u003eTrue West\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"With its scope, sophistication, and engaging prose, this marvelous book deserves wide readership.\"-Sherry L. Smith, \u003ci\u003eSouth Dakota History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Elliott West has written an engaging and innovative synthesis that will be of interest to all readers of history. It is a gift to anyone who writes lectures; teachers will find illuminating examples, useful metaphors, and an extraordinary amount of data to wield in the service of helping students make sense of the middle decades of the nineteenth century.\"-Amy Kohout, \u003ci\u003eMissouri Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Elliott West's \u003ci\u003eContinental Reckoning \u003c\/i\u003evividly shows the importance of looking at the American West when studying the Civil War era. West makes sweeping arguments crucial to advancing Civil War West historiography, and his accessible writing style also makes the read enjoyable for the general public interested in the American West or nineteenth-century U.S. history more broadly. Rather than seeing the West as a \"safety valve\" for the East, \u003ci\u003eContinental Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how the region became inextricably linked to the rise of the modern and robust U.S. nation state.\"-John R. Legg, \u003ci\u003eCivil War Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"The West is a big canvas. West uses brush strokes small and large to depict his engaging and thought-provoking perspective.\"-Tom Carpenter, \u003ci\u003eRoundUp Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"A comprehensive, lucid, and often surprising history of western settlement in America.\"-\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eContinental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion\u003c\/i\u003e is a big book, in size, scope, and intellectual creativity. . . . Elliott West's careful organization, elegant writing, and abundance of excerpts from letters, newspapers and other documents keeps the narrative grounded in personal stories and experiences that will appeal to scholars, students, and general readers alike.\"-Renee M. Laegreid, \u003ci\u003eAnnals of Wyoming\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"This is a wonderfully ambitious contribution to western history. The book displays a remarkable grasp and synthesis of a wide range of literature. It also provides a one volume \"Best of West,\" as in Elliott West, that brings together his finest contributions to western history in a thoughtful, wise lesson that can come only from an accomplished historian at the top of his game.\"-Todd M. Kerstetter, \u003ci\u003eNebraska History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in History\u003cbr\u003e Winner of Columbia University's 2024 Bancroft Prize in American History\u003cbr\u003e Winner of the 2024 Caughey Western History Prize\u003cbr\u003e Winner of the 2024 Spur Award\u003cbr\u003e Named a Best Civil War Book of 2023 by Civil War Monitor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eContinental Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the American West and its vital role in the transformation of the nation. In the 1840s, by which time the United States had expanded to the Pacific, what would become the West was home to numerous vibrant Native cultures and vague claims by other nations. Thirty years later it was organized into states and territories and bound into the nation and world by an infrastructure of rails, telegraph wires, and roads and by a racial and ethnic order, with its Indigenous peoples largely dispossessed and confined to reservations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Unprecedented exploration uncovered the West’s extraordinary resources, beginning with the discovery of gold in California within days of the United States acquiring the territory following the Mexican-American War. As those resources were developed, often by the most modern methods and through modern corporate enterprise, half of the contiguous United States was physically transformed. \u003ci\u003eContinental Reckoning\u003c\/i\u003e guides the reader through the rippling, multiplying changes wrought in the western half of the country, arguing that these changes should be given equal billing with the Civil War in this crucial transition of national life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As the West was acquired, integrated into the nation, and made over physically and culturally, the United States shifted onto a course of accelerated economic growth, a racial reordering and redefinition of citizenship, engagement with global revolutions of science and technology, and invigorated involvement with the larger world. The creation of the West and the emergence of modern America were intimately related. Neither can be understood without the other. With masterful prose and a critical eye, West presents a fresh approach to the dawn of the American West, one of the most pivotal periods of American history.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of Maps\u003cbr\u003e Series Editor’\u003cbr\u003es Introduction, by Richard Etulain\u003cbr\u003e Prelude: 773,510,680 Acres\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Unsettling America\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Great Coincidence\u003cbr\u003e 2. Division and Multiplication\u003cbr\u003e 3. Letting Blood\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Horse and the Hammer\u003cbr\u003e 5. Conquest in Stutter-Step\u003cbr\u003e 6. Carnal Property\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Fluid West\u003cbr\u003e 8. Continental Reckoning\u003cbr\u003e 9. Civil War and the “\u003cbr\u003eIndian Problem”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Things Come Together\u003cbr\u003e 10. Iron Bands and Tongues of Fire\u003cbr\u003e 11. Connections Real and Imagined\u003cbr\u003e 12. Maps\u003cbr\u003e 13. The “\u003cbr\u003eScience of Man”\u003cbr\u003e and the American Sublime\u003cbr\u003e 14. The World’\u003cbr\u003es Convention\u003cbr\u003e 15. Crew Cultures, Cribs and Schoolhouses, Women on the Fringe\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. Worked into Being\u003cbr\u003e 16. Cattle and the New America\u003cbr\u003e 17. Wind, Fever, and Indians Unhorsed\u003cbr\u003e 18. Breaking the Land\u003cbr\u003e 19. Domination and Extinction\u003cbr\u003e 20. When the West Turned Inside Out\u003cbr\u003e 21. Legal Wrestling, the Land Convulsed\u003cbr\u003e 22. The Final Undoing\u003cbr\u003e 23. Creating the West\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52600257806616,"sku":"9781496233585","price":31.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/continental-reckoning-the-american-west-in-the-age-of-expansion-hardback-9781496233585","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}