Oxford history of the American West
1994, First Edition. New York : Oxford University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, not price-clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #420370
ISBN: 0195059689
Physical description; xiii, 872 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Caughey Western History Association Prize, 1995. Contents; Native peoples and native histories / Peter Iverson -- The Spanish-Mexican rim / David J. Weber -- Empires of trade, hinterlands of settlement / Jay Gitlin -- American frontier / Elliott West -- National initiatives / Clyde A. Milner II -- Entering the global economy / Keith L. Bryant, Jr. -- Animals and enterprise / Richard White -- An agricultural empire / Allan G. Bogue -- A saga of families / Kathleen Neils Conzen -- Religion and spirituality / Ferenc M. Szasz, Margaret Connell Szasz -- Violence / Richard Maxwell Brown -- Wage earners and wealth makers / Carlos A. Schwantes -- The federal presence / Carl Abbott -- Politics and protests / Michael P. Malone, F. Ross Peterson -- A region of cities / Carol A. O'Connor -- Alaska and Hawaii / Victoria Wyatt -- Landscapes of abundance and scarcity / William Cronon -- Contemporary peoples/contested places / Sarah Deutsch, George J. Sanchez, Gary Y. Okihiro -- The visual west / Brian W. Dippie -- The literary west / Thomas J. Lyon -- Speaking for the past / Charles S. Peterson -- Selling the popular myth / Anne M. Butler -- Comparing wests and frontiers / Walter Nugent. Subjects; Western expansion United States History. West (U.S.) History. Midwestern United States history. Northwestern United States history. Southwestern United States history.
Price: €18.95