{"product_id":"the-american-west-the-reader-paperback-softback-9780253212900","title":"The American West; The Reader (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253212900","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe American West\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Reader\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWalter Nugent (Edited by), Martin Ridge (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253212900, Indiana University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 October 1999\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e360 pages, 18 b\u0026amp;w photos, 1 maps\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2 cm, 0.544 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\u003e\"Those who appreciate the impact of history will be impressed with the selection of articles.\" —Nebraska History\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDesigned for survey courses—yet in-depth enough to support intensive discussion—these seventeen classic essays traverse the history of the American West, from women's property rights in Spanish-Mexican California to the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864, from homesteading and mining to the Great Depression and World War II. Provocative and illuminating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eMap\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments and Permissions\u003cbr\u003eTimeline\u003cbr\u003eGeneral Introduction by Martin Ridge\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Defining the West\u003cbr\u003eAre We Talking about a Place? What Is It? Where Is It?\u003cbr\u003e1. Walter Nugent, \"Where is the American West?\"\u003cbr\u003e2. Martin Ridge, \"The American West: From Frontier to Region\"\u003cbr\u003e3. Walter Nugent, \"Frontiers and Empires in the Late Nineteenth Century\"\u003cbr\u003ePart II: The Eighteenth Century\u003cbr\u003eCalifornia Women, 1769-1848\u003cbr\u003e 4. Gloria Ricci Lothrop, \"Rancheras and the Land: Women and Property Rights in Hispanic California\"\u003cbr\u003ePart III: The Nineteenth Century\u003cbr\u003eExploration, the Fur Trade, and National Identity, 1807-1845\u003cbr\u003e5. William H. Goetzmann, \"Mountain Man as Jacksonian Man\"\u003cbr\u003eIndians, Animals, and the Great Plains, 1800-1850 \u003cbr\u003e6. Dan Flores, \"Bison Ecology and Bison Diplomacy: The Southern Plains from 1800 to 1850\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Mexican-American War, 1846-1848\u003cbr\u003e7. Gene M. Brack, \"Mexican Opinion, American Racism, and the War of 1846\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Latter-day Saints, 1830-1890\u003cbr\u003e8. Martin Ridge, Mormon\"'Deliverance' and the Closing of the Frontier\"\u003cbr\u003eIndians, the Army, and Settlers, 1864\u003cbr\u003e9. Janet LeCompte, \"Sand Creek\"\u003cbr\u003eCowboys as Wage Workers, 1880s\u003cbr\u003e10. David E. Lopez, \"Cowboy Strikes and Unions\"\u003cbr\u003eHomesteading, 1880s-1930s\u003cbr\u003e11. Paula M. Nelson, \"'Everything I Want is Here!': The Dakota Farmer's Rural Ideal, 1884-1934\"\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: The Twentieth Century\u003cbr\u003eMexican, \"Anglo\", and European Miners and Capital, 1900-1915\u003cbr\u003e12. Phil Mellinger,\"'The Men Have Become Organizers': Labor Conflict and Unionization in the Mexican Mining Communities of Arizona, 1900-1915\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Great Depression in the Northwest, 1929-1941\u003cbr\u003e13. Leonard J. Arrington,\"\"Idaho and the Great Depression\"\u003cbr\u003eWorld War II and the Metropolis, 1941-1945\u003cbr\u003e14. Arthur C. Verge, \"The Impact of the Second World War on Los Angeles\"\u003cbr\u003eJapanese-American Women and the Internment of 1942-1945\u003cbr\u003e15. Valerie Matsumoto, \"Japanese-American Women during World War II\"\u003cbr\u003eAfrican-Americans in the West, 1541-1993\u003cbr\u003e16. Quintard Taylor, \"From Esteban to Rodney King: Five Centuries of African American History in the West\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Pacific Northwest since 1945\u003cbr\u003e17. Carl Abbott, \"Regional City and Network City: Portland and Seattle in the Twentieth Century\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525856358680,"sku":"9780253212900","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-american-west-the-reader-paperback-softback-9780253212900","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}