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Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier
Ray Allen Billington
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Description for Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier
Paperback. Num Pages: 444 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 27. Weight in Grams: 614.
When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington's 'Westward Expansion' set a new standard for scholarship in western American history, and the book's reputation among historians, scholars, and students grew through four subsequent editions. This abridgment and revision of Billington and Martin Ridge's fifth edition, with a new introduction and additional scholarship by Ridge, as well as an updated bibliography, focuses on the Trans-Mississippi frontier. Although the text sets out the remarkable story of the American frontier, which became, almost from the beginning, an archetypal narrative of the new American nation's successful expansion, the authors do ... Read more
When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington's 'Westward Expansion' set a new standard for scholarship in western American history, and the book's reputation among historians, scholars, and students grew through four subsequent editions. This abridgment and revision of Billington and Martin Ridge's fifth edition, with a new introduction and additional scholarship by Ridge, as well as an updated bibliography, focuses on the Trans-Mississippi frontier. Although the text sets out the remarkable story of the American frontier, which became, almost from the beginning, an archetypal narrative of the new American nation's successful expansion, the authors do ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
444
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826319814
SKU
V9780826319814
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