Essays on the changing images of the Southwest / edited by Richard Francaviglia and David Narrett ; introduction by David J. Weber ; by Richard Francaviglia ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Francaviglia, Richard V.

Narrett, David E., 1951-

University of Texas at Arlington.

Series:

Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; 28.

Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; no. 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southwest, New--Description and travel.

New Southwest.

Southwest, New--In literature.

Southwest, New, in art.

Physical Description:

x, 153 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press, 1994.

Summary:

The American Southwest has been variously celebrated as a place of enormous beauty with a sense of deep historical roots and condemned as a place without any past or, indeed, an inhabitable present. The extremes of southwestern life modern and traditional, urban and rural, tame and wild, ugly and beautiful, polluted and pure - pervade the region. How America has come to view the Southwest and its distinctive images - and why it has formed these views - is the subject of this intriguing interdisciplinary book.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0890966206

OCLC:

30436870