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AN AMERICAN VISION
FAR WESTERN LANDSCAPE AND NATIONAL CULTURE, 1820-1920 |
| By: |
Anne Farrar Hyde |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£13.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0814734812 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780814734810 |
| Publisher: |
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Series: |
The American Social Experience 17 |
| Pages: |
300 |
| Description: |
Combining cultural and social history, this study demonstrates the impact the Far West has had on the development of a national culture in the USA. Embarrassed and frightened by the landscape on their first arrival, Americans had come to look at the region with pride by the end of the century. |
| Synopsis: |
Combining cultural and social history, this study demonstrates the impact the Far West has had on the development of a national culture in the United States. When Americans first set eyes on the West, its combination of plain, mountain, and desert embarrassed and even frightened them, but by the end of the century, Americans had come to look at the region with pride. These new responses required the development of new words and forced observers to develop new, particulary American forms of description. Hyde's analysis of Western resorts, first as bulwarks against the landscape and later as extensions of the scenery, gives special focus to the argument. These grand and unmatched structures provide physical evidence of the growing influence of the Far West on American culture. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
New York University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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