Under an open sky : rethinking America's Western past / editors, William Cronon, George Miles, Jay Gitlin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cronon, William.

Miles, George A.

Gitlin, Jay.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

West (U.S.)--Historiography.

West (U.S.).

West (U.S.)--History.

États-Unis (Ouest)--Histoire.

États-Unis (Ouest)--Historiographie.

Historiography.

West United States.

Local Subjects:

États-Unis (Ouest)--Histoire.

États-Unis (Ouest)--Historiographie.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, ©1992.

Summary:

"The history of the American West is being transformed by exciting new ideas, new questions, new scholarship. For many years this field was dominated by popular images of the lone cowboy and the savage Indian, and by Frederick Jackson Turner's concept of the frontier as a steadily advancing source of democracy and social renewal. But now historians and even the merchants of popular culture are reshaping our views of the frontier and the West by taking up a rich array of new subjects, including the stories of diverse peoples as well as the history of the land itself. A new generation of scholars is reformulating the broader questions also: what was the significance of the frontier in American history? what are the bases of western identity? what themes connect the twentieth-century West to its more distant past?" "The transformation of western history continues to be an open-ended, turbulent process. The original essays in this volume are reports from the frontier of change. In their diverging assumptions and conclusions, they reflect the vitality of this field. They succeed when they make the case for new questions and suggest possible answers. They advocate no single agenda. But taken together they well represent the passion and high craft with which scholars are creating a new western history."--Jacket.

Contents:

Becoming West: toward a new meaning for western history / William Cronon, George Miles, Jay Gitlin

Kennecott journey: the paths out of town / William Cronon

To hear an old voice : rediscovering Native Americans in American history / George Miles

On the boundaries of empire : connecting the West to its imperial past / Jay Gitlin

Americans, Mexicans, Métis: a community approach to the comparative study of North American frontiers / John Mack Faragher

Landscape of enclaves : race relations in the West, 1865-1990 / Sarah Deutsch

Engendering the West / Katherine G. Morrissey

Religion in the American West / D. Michael Quinn

Making the most of words : verbal activity and Western America / Patricia Nelson Limerick

Views and reviews : western art and western history / Martha A. Sandweiss

The view from wisdom : four layers of history and regional identity / Clyde A. Milner II

History for the masses: commercializing the western past / Ann Fabian

Is there a Twentieth-Century West? / Michael E. McGerr

Westering in the Twenty-first century: speculations on the future of the western past / Howard R. Lamar.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-342) and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives.

ISBN:

039302993X

9780393029932

OCLC:

23976516