A Companion to the American West [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deverell, William, 1962-

Series:

Blackwell companions to American history.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

West (U.S.)--History.

Local Subjects:

West (U.S.)--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (586 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken : Wiley, 2008.

Summary:

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. Covers the culture, politics, and environment of the American West through periods of migration, settlement, and modernization Discusses Native Americans and their conflicts and integration with American settlers

Contents:

A COMPANION TO THE AMERICAN WEST; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Thinking Through the American West; 1 The Making of the First American West and the Unmaking of Other Realms; 2 Thinking West; Part II Conquest and Its Patterns: The Nineteenth Century; 3 Passion and Imagination in the Exploration of the American West; 4 Environment and the Nineteenth-Century West: Or, Process Encounters Place; 5 Engineering the Elephant: Industrialism and the Environment in the Greater West; 6 Mining and the Nineteenth-Century American West; 7 Law and the Contact of Cultures

8 Native Americans in the Nineteenth-Century American West9 Western Violence; 10 Bringing It All Back Home: Rethinking the History of Women and the Nineteenth-Century West; 11 Empire and Liberty: Contradictions and Conflicts in Nineteenth-Century Western Political History; Part III Exceptionalism or Regionalism? The Twentieth-Century American West; 12 African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West; 13 The West and Workers, 1870-1930; 14 Societies to Match the Scenery: Twentieth-Century Environmental History in the American West; 15 Where to Draw the Line? The Pacific, Place, and the US West

16 Religion and the American West17 Transients and Stickers: The Problem of Community in the American West; 18 American Indians in the Twentieth Century; 19 The New Deal's West; 20 Art, Ideology, and the West; 21 ""The West Plays West"": Western Tourism and the Landscape of Leisure; 22 Hispanics and Latinos; 23 City Lights: Urban History in the West; 24 Politics and the Twentieth-Century American West; 25 The Literary West and the Twentieth Century; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-78268-674-6

OCLC:

55771331