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Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860
Anne Farrar Hyde
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Description for Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860
Hardback. A study of the role of family and trade networks in shaping the American West in the nineteenth century. Series: History of the American West. Num Pages: 648 pages, 43 illustrations, 12 maps. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 163 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1100.
To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little difference: the United States was just another imperial overlord to be assessed and manipulated. This was not, as Empires, Nations, and Families makes clear, virgin wilderness discovered by virtuous Anglo entrepreneurs. Rather, the United States was a newcomer in a place already complicated by vying empires. This book documents the broad family associations that crossed national and ethnic lines and that, along with the river systems of the trans-Mississippi West, formed the basis for a global trade in furs that had operated for hundreds of years before the land became part of the United States. Empires, Nations, and Families shows how the world of river and maritime trade effectively shifted political power away from military and diplomatic circles into the hands of local people. Tracing family stories from the Canadian North to the Spanish and Mexican borderlands and from the Pacific Coast to the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, Anne F. Hyde's narrative moves from the earliest years of the Indian trade to the Mexican War and the gold rush era. Her work reveals how, in the 1850s, immigrants to these newest regions of the United States violently wrested control from Native and other powers, and how conquest and competing demands for land and resources brought about a volatile frontier culture-not at all the peace and prosperity that the new power had promised.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Series
History of the American West
Condition
New
Weight
1099g
Number of Pages
648
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803224056
SKU
V9780803224056
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About Anne Farrar Hyde
Anne F. Hyde is a professor of history at Colorado College. She is the author of An American Vision: Far Western Landscape and National Culture and coauthor, with William Deverell, of The West in the History of the Nation.
Reviews for Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860
This is an important and useful book, and it should find a large readership. -Katrine Barber, Oregon Historical Quarterly
Katrine Barber
Oregon Historical Quarte
The strength of [Hyde's] work lies in her ability to assemble and integrate a vast amount of secondary work into a thematic framework that emphasizes the important role kinship structures played in shaping the economic and social structures of the West prior to 1860. -James E. Sherow, Kansas History
James E. Sherow
Kansas History
The nuanced and complex narrative contextualizes the experiences of individuals, families, and communities. . . . Taking a unique approach that emphasizes the importance of family networks and integrating a newer generation of scholarship to explain the social and cultural dynamics of the West, Hyde has produced a substantial and highly original interpretation of the period [1800-61]. . . . An excellent work and a major contribution to the historiography of the North American West. -John Husmann, South Dakota History
John Husman
South Dakota History
Hyde's volume is a superb telling of a tale familiar to students of the American West but presented in a new, enlivening manner that will make readers remember why they love frontier American history so very much. -Patricia Ann Owens, The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
Patricia Ann Owens
The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
Students of the Great Plains and the nineteenth-century West in general, at whatever level, will be well rewarded by a reading of Anne Hyde's fine book. -Walter Nugent, Great Plains Quarterly
Walter Nugent
Great Plains Quarterly
Hyde weaves her stories together to create a solid and provocative argument in Empires, Nations, and Families, a book that is not only well researched and presented but instantly absorbing. -Adrienne Caughfield, Journal of American History
Adrienne Caughfield
Journal of American History
Katrine Barber
Oregon Historical Quarte
The strength of [Hyde's] work lies in her ability to assemble and integrate a vast amount of secondary work into a thematic framework that emphasizes the important role kinship structures played in shaping the economic and social structures of the West prior to 1860. -James E. Sherow, Kansas History
James E. Sherow
Kansas History
The nuanced and complex narrative contextualizes the experiences of individuals, families, and communities. . . . Taking a unique approach that emphasizes the importance of family networks and integrating a newer generation of scholarship to explain the social and cultural dynamics of the West, Hyde has produced a substantial and highly original interpretation of the period [1800-61]. . . . An excellent work and a major contribution to the historiography of the North American West. -John Husmann, South Dakota History
John Husman
South Dakota History
Hyde's volume is a superb telling of a tale familiar to students of the American West but presented in a new, enlivening manner that will make readers remember why they love frontier American history so very much. -Patricia Ann Owens, The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
Patricia Ann Owens
The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
Students of the Great Plains and the nineteenth-century West in general, at whatever level, will be well rewarded by a reading of Anne Hyde's fine book. -Walter Nugent, Great Plains Quarterly
Walter Nugent
Great Plains Quarterly
Hyde weaves her stories together to create a solid and provocative argument in Empires, Nations, and Families, a book that is not only well researched and presented but instantly absorbing. -Adrienne Caughfield, Journal of American History
Adrienne Caughfield
Journal of American History