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13 produkter
Western Paradox
A Conservation Reader
Av Bernard DeVoto, Douglas Brinkley m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
876 kr
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“This book is the fascinating record of DeVoto’s crusade to save the West from itself. . . . His arguments, insights, and passion are as relevant and urgent today as they were when he first put them on paper.”—Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., from the Foreword Bernard DeVoto (1897–1955) was, according …
Legacy of Conquest
The Unbroken Past of the American West
Häftad, 2006
190 kr
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The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality; in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and …
Something in the Soil
Legacies and Reckonings in the New West
Häftad, 2001
346 kr
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In Something in the Soil, Patricia Nelson Limerick travels far outside the usual academic circles to bring Western past and Western present into a spirited union. Whether her topic is the rapid growth in the West today, the patent awfulness of most academic writing, or struggles over the standing …
Frontier in American Culture
Av Richard White, Patricia Nelson Limerick m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
441 kr
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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 …
Frontier in American Culture
Av Patricia Nelson Limerick, Richard White m. fl.
E-bok, 1994
518 kr
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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 …
Trails
Toward a New Western History
Av Patricia Nelson Limerick, Charles Rankin m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
401 kr
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This is the new story of the Old West, told by ten historians who dare to reenvision the American West and knock the field of Western history on its ear. Some historians call it a revolution.The Trails Conference in Santa Fe, a 1989 gathering organized by “new” western historian Patricia …
Trails
Toward a New Western History
Av B01, Charles Rankin m. fl.
E-bok, 2019
446 kr
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This is the new story of the Old West, told by ten historians who dare to reenvision the American West and knock the field of Western history on its ear. Some historians call it a revolution. The Trails Conference in Santa Fe, a 1989 gathering organized by “new” western historian Patricia …
All Over the Map
Rethinking American Regions
Av Edward L. Ayers, Patricia Nelson Limerick m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
468 kr
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Even as Americans keep moving "all over the map" in the late twentieth century, they cherish memories of the places they come from. But where do these places-these regions-come from? What makes them so real? In this groundbreaking book a distinguished group of historians explores the concept of …
Remedies for a New West
Healing Landscapes, Histories, and Cultures
Av Patricia Nelson Limerick, Andrew Cowell m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
459 kr
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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 West—disappearing Native American languages, deteriorating air quality, suburban sprawl, species loss, grassland degradation, and many …
Desert Passages
Encounters with the American Desert
Häftad, 1985
532 kr
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This lively book traces the development of American attitudes toward the desert using case studies from the writings of John C Fr+(c)mont, William Lewis Manly, Mark Twain, William Ellsworth Smythe, John Van Dyke, George Wharton James, Joseph Wood Krutch, and Edward Abbey.
Translating Past to Present
Interpreters in the American West and Beyond
Av Andrew Offenburger, Patricia Nelson Limerick
Inbunden, 2025
1161 kr
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The act of interpretation has been central to Western American history. At every historical juncture, interpreters were active and present-conveying meaning between people speaking mutually unintelligible languages, bartering for goods and power along borders, and translating intentions from …
Translating Past to Present
Interpreters in the American West and Beyond
Av Andrew Offenburger, Patricia Nelson Limerick
Häftad, 2025
401 kr
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The act of interpretation has been central to Western American history. At every historical juncture, interpreters were active and present-conveying meaning between people speaking mutually unintelligible languages, bartering for goods and power along borders, and translating intentions from …
This Land
A History of the United States, Volume 1
Av Philip J. Deloria, Patricia Nelson Limerick m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
831 kr
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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 …
