Author: Clyde A. MilnerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
Indeed, to enlarge on Wallace Stegner's singular phrase, the West is America, only more so.
The Oxford History of the American West
Author: Clyde A. MilnerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
Indeed, to enlarge on Wallace Stegner's singular phrase, the West is America, only more so.
Under Western Skies
Author: Donald WorsterPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195086716
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
ns explore our environmental history, uncover the role of nature and the land in the western past, and examine the West as the world's first multicultural society.
Oxford History of the American West
Author: Sonia KASHUKMajor Problems in the History of the American West
Author: Clyde A. MilnerPublisher: Major Problems in American His
ISBN: 9780669415803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This unique collection of essays and documents brings to life the major topics in American western and frontier history from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
The American West
Author: Stephen AronPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199858934
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Familiar figures - missionaries, explorers, trappers, traders, prospectors, gunfighters, cowboys, and Indians - appear in these pages. So do renowned individuals such as Daniel Boone, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and John Wayne. But their stories contribute to a history of the American West that is longer, larger, and more complicated than we were once told.
The American West
Author: Anne M. ButlerPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0631210865
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Tracing events from the pre-history to the present day, this book offers a concise and accessible history of the American West. Explores the complex interactions between and among cultures in the American West Chronologically organized and informed by the latest scholarship Grounded in attention to race, class, gender, and the environment, the text focuses on social, economic, and political forces that shaped the lived experiences of diverse westerners and influenced the patterns of western history.
A New Significance
Author: Clyde A. MilnerPublisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780195100488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Timely, vigorous entries go beyond conventional narratives of westward expansion, and make clear the stimulating uses of scholarship informed by recent critical and multicultural theory.
Field Life
Author: Jeremy VetterPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822981459
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Field Life examines the practice of science in the field in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of the American West between the 1860s and the 1910s, when the railroad was the dominant form of long-distance transportation. Grounded in approaches from environmental history and the history of technology, it emphasizes the material basis of scientific fieldwork, joining together the human labor that produced knowledge with the natural world in which those practices were embedded. Four distinct modes of field practice, which were shared by different field science disciplines, proliferated during this period—surveys, lay networks, quarries, and stations—and this book explores the dynamics that underpinned each of them. Using two diverse case studies to animate each mode of practice, as well as the making of the field as a place for science, Field Life combines textured analysis of specific examples of field science on the ground with wider discussion of the commonalities in the practices of a diverse array of field sciences, including the earth and physical sciences, the life and agricultural sciences, and the human sciences. By situating science in its regional environmental context, Field Life analyzes the intersection between the cosmopolitan knowledge of science and the experiential knowledge of people living in the field. Examples of field science in the Plains and Rockies range widely: geological surveys and weather observing networks, quarries to uncover dinosaur fossils and archaeological remains, and branch agricultural experiment stations and mountain biological field stations.
Paper Trails
Author: Cameron BlevinsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190053690
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A groundbreaking history of how the US Post made the nineteenth-century American West. There were five times as many post offices in the United States in 1899 than there are McDonald's restaurants today. During an era of supposedly limited federal government, the United States operated the most expansive national postal system in the world. In this cutting-edge interpretation of the late nineteenth-century United States, Cameron Blevins argues that the US Post wove together two of the era's defining projects: western expansion and the growth of state power. Between the 1860s and the early 1900s, the western United States underwent a truly dramatic reorganization of people, land, capital, and resources. It had taken Anglo-Americans the better part of two hundred years to occupy the eastern half of the continent, yet they occupied the West within a single generation. As millions of settlers moved into the region, they relied on letters and newspapers, magazines and pamphlets, petitions and money orders to stay connected to the wider world. Paper Trails maps the spread of the US Post using a dataset of more than 100,000 post offices, revealing a new picture of the federal government in the West. The western postal network bore little resemblance to the civil service bureaucracies typically associated with government institutions. Instead, the US Post grafted public mail service onto private businesses, contracting with stagecoach companies to carry the mail and paying local merchants to distribute letters from their stores. These arrangements allowed the US Post to rapidly spin out a vast and ephemeral web of postal infrastructure to thousands of distant places. The postal network's sprawling geography and localized operations forces a reconsideration of the American state, its history, and the ways in which it exercised power.
Landscape and Western Art
Author: Malcolm AndrewsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192842336
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book explores many issues raised by the range of ideas and images of the natural world in Western art since the Renaissance. The whole concept of landscape is examined as a representation of the relationship between the human and natural worlds. Featured artists include Claude, Freidrich, Turner, Cole and Ruisdael, and many different forms of landscape art are addressed, such as land art, painting, photography, garden design, panorama and cartography.