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The American West: Competing Visions
Karen Jones
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Description for The American West: Competing Visions
Hardback. An introduction to the history of the American West which offers a new, more balanced approach to viewing the Western past, covering the key themes and debates in Western history as well as competing academic discourses. Num Pages: 352 pages, 15 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 642.
The American West used to be a story of gunfights, glory, wagon trails, and linear progress. Historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner and Hollywood movies such as Stagecoach (1939) and Shane (1953) cast the trans-Mississippi region as a frontier of epic proportions where 'savagery' met 'civilization' and boys became men. During the late 1980s, this old way of seeing the West came under heavy fire. Scholars such as Patricia Nelson Limerick and Richard White forged a fresh story of the region, a new vision of the West, based around the conquest of peoples and landscapes. This book explores the bipolar ... Read more
The American West used to be a story of gunfights, glory, wagon trails, and linear progress. Historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner and Hollywood movies such as Stagecoach (1939) and Shane (1953) cast the trans-Mississippi region as a frontier of epic proportions where 'savagery' met 'civilization' and boys became men. During the late 1980s, this old way of seeing the West came under heavy fire. Scholars such as Patricia Nelson Limerick and Richard White forged a fresh story of the region, a new vision of the West, based around the conquest of peoples and landscapes. This book explores the bipolar ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748622511
SKU
V9780748622511
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About Karen Jones
Karen R. Jones is Director of American Studies and Lecturer in American History at the University of Kent. She is author of Wolf Mountains: A History of Wolves Along the Great Divide (2002). John Wills is a Lecturer in American History at the University of Kent. He is co-author, with Karen Jones, of The Invention of the ... Read more
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