This collection of essays and speeches by a historian associated with the New Western History includes several that dispel cherished myths about the taming of the American West as well as a few on academic writing.
Designed for teachers and students of the United States history survey course who prefer a larger measure of social history content, along with all the vital materials in political, diplomatic, legal, and economic history, this four-color text is written by four major American historians. Its dramatic, clear prose, aimed at beginning college ...
"There is no better introduction to the New Western History". -- Western American Literature. "Among the most stimulating, thought provoking, and, at the same time, most controversial publications dealing with western American history in the last decade". -- Western Historical Quarterly.
Exploring the concept of region in America, this study calls into question widely held notions about how Americans came to differ from one another, and explains why those differences continue to flourish. The concept of region, and the changes it has undergone, is examined, as is its meaning for Americans today. The authors conclude that regional ...
1995 marks the centenary of the beginning of Edward S. Curtis' career as an Indian photographer. This landmark work captures the history of the North American Indian as told in the words of Curtis. It features 100 photos taken by Curtis that have never been seen before, as well as 150 that have never appeared in any modern book form. 250 b&w ...
Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and Patricia Limerick join their inimitable talents to explore our ...
This wide-ranging collection of essays is intended to provoke both thought and action. The pieces collected here explore a variety of issues facing the American Westadisappearing Native American languages, deteriorating air quality, suburban sprawl, species loss, grassland degradation, and many othersaand suggest steps toward ahealing.a More than ...
This groundbreaking exploration of one of the worst Indian massacres in American history illuminates the clash of American, Mexican, and tribal cultures in the southwestern borderlands.
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