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BEYOND THE MISSOURI
THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN WEST |
| By: |
Richard W. Etulain |
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Paperback |
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£38.50 |
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£34.65 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0826340334 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780826340337 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2006 |
| Pages: |
408 |
| Description: |
Presents a historical overview of the dramatic story of the American West since its prehistory. This book covers the region from the North Dakota-to-Texas states to the Pacific Coast. It provides a fresh narrative of this geographically and culturally vast area and emphasises on two themes: change and complexity. |
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This new historical overview tells the dramatic story of the American West from its prehistory to the present. A narrative history, it covers the region from the North Dakota-to-Texas states to the Pacific Coast. This West has always been home to richly diverse cultural groups, including today's growing numbers of Indian, Hispanic, and Asian Americans. Other distinctions have marked the Western past: first, the differences among prehistoric peoples and among hundreds of Indian tribes at first white contact; next, the varied western subcultures that emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; third the social, cultural, and political complexities of the West in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In "Beyond the Missouri", Richard Etulain provides a fresh, balanced narrative of this geographically and culturally vast area and emphasises two themes: change and complexity. His perspective is neither the too-optimistic, homogenised position of the Turnerian school of historians nor the less optimistic, conflicted approach of the Revisionist Western historians. Etulain begins his study with a discussion of western landscapes and Native inhabitants.He next examines the Spanish Southwest, colonial rivalries, mountain men, missionaries, and the Oregon Trail. Then Etulain looks at Mormons, miners, western communities, ranching and farming, and transportation networks. He treats western frontier social patterns and cultures and contributes several chapters on the modern West, including the pre-World War II and the Cold War Wests. Etulain concludes with today's continuing search for an American West. Each of the fifteen chapters contains a helpful list of suggested readings. |
| Illustrations: |
61 halftones, 27 maps |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of New Mexico Press |
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Returnable |
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