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The American West: A Very Short Introduction

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Description for The American West: A Very Short Introduction Paperback. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 160 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 109 x 7. Weight in Grams: 126.
Part geographical location, part time period, and part state of mind, the American West is a concept often invoked but rarely defined. Though popular culture has carved out a short and specific time and place for the region, author and longtime Californian Stephen Aron tracks "the West" from the building of the Cahokia Mounds around 900 AD to the post-World War II migration to California. His Very Short Introduction stretches the chronology, enlarges the geography, and varies the casting, providing a history of the American West that is longer, larger, and more complicated than popular culture has previously suggested. It ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Very Short Introductions
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199858934
SKU
V9780199858934
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About Stephen Aron
Stephen Aron is professor of history at UCLA and chair of the Institute for the Study of the American West at the Autry National Center. He is the author of How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay and American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State, the co-author of Worlds ... Read more

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