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• Publisher : University of Arizona Press
• File Size : 44,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 September 1996

Describes changes in how the West has been seen, from a male-dominated frontier, to a region with a powerful sense of place, to a modern center of both genders, ethnic

• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
• File Size : 39,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 November 2007

Chronicles the history of the American West during the twentieth century, tracing economical, political, social, and cultural developments in the region from 1900 to the turn of the twenty-first century, in

• Publisher : University of Iowa Press
• File Size : 38,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 December 2021

Who owns the West? -- Buffalo Bill and Karl May : the origins of German Western fandom -- A wall runs through it : western fans in the two Germanies -- Little

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 11 June 2024

Americans have had an enduring yet ambivalent obsession with the West as both a place and a state of mind. Michael L. Johnson considers how that obsession originated, how it

• Publisher : University of Washington Press
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• Release Date : 05 June 2014

From deserts to ghost towns, from national forests to California bungalows, many of the features of the western American landscape are well known to residents and travelers alike. But in

• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
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• Release Date : 15 April 2008

A Companion to the American West is a rigorous, illuminating introduction to the history of the American West. Twenty-five essays by expert scholars synthesize the best and most provocative work

• Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
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• Release Date : 01 May 2023

Distinguished historian Richard W. Etulain brings together a generous selection of essays from his sixty-year career as a specialist on the US West in this essential volume. Each essay provides

• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
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• Release Date : 01 November 2022

In 1893 Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the generational process of meeting and conquering the supposedly uncivilized western frontier is what forged American identity. In the late twentieth century, “new

• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
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• Release Date : 01 July 2023

In the years between 1940 and 2000, the American Far West went from being a relative backwater of the United States to a considerably more developed, modern, and prosperous region--one capable of

• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
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• Release Date : 11 June 2024

To many Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the West was simultaneously the greatest symbol of American opportunity, the greatest story of its history, and the imagined blank slate