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Continental reckoning : the American West in the age of expansion / Elliott West.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- West, Elliott, 1945- Author.
- Series:
- History of the American West
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- West (U.S.)--History--1860-1890.
- West (U.S.).
- West (U.S.)--History--1848-1860.
- Land use--West (U.S.)--History.
- Land use.
- West (U.S.)--Economic conditions--19th century.
- West (U.S.)--Environmental conditions--History.
- United States--Territorial expansion.
- United States.
- Ecology.
- Economic history.
- Territorial expansion.
- West United States.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- xxxiii, 628 pages, 38 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- American West in the age of expansion
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Elliott West lays out the main events and developments that together describe and explain the emergence of the American West and situates the birth of the West in the broader narrative of American history between 1848 and 1880"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Series editor's introduction / by Richard Etulain
- Prelude: 773,510,680 acres
- The great coincidence
- Division and multiplication
- Letting blood
- The horse and the hammer
- Conquest in stutter-step
- Carnal property
- The fluid West
- Continental reckoning
- Civil War and the "Indian problem"
- Iron bands and tongues of fire
- Connection real and imagined
- Maps
- The "science of man" and the American sublime
- The world's convention
- Crew cultures, cribs and schoolhouses, women on the fringe
- Cattle and the new America
- Wind, fever, and Indians unhorsed
- Breaking the land
- Domination and extinction
- When the West turned inside out
- Legal wrestling, the land convulsed
- The final undoing
- Creating the West.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-595) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781496233585
- 1496233581
- OCLC:
- 1301903434
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