Under An Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past - Brossura

William, Cronon

 
9780393310634: Under An Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past
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ISBN 10: 0393310639 ISBN 13: 9780393310634
Casa editrice: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1993

Sinossi

Essays examine the significance of the frontier in American history, the bases of a western identity, and the themes that connect the twentieth-century West to its more distant past

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The history of the American West is being transformed by exciting new ideas, new questions, new scholarship. For many years this field was dominated by popular images of the lone cowboy and the savage Indian, and by Frederick Jackson Turner's concept of the frontier as a steadily advancing source of democracy and social renewal. But now historians and even the merchants of popular culture are reshaping our views of the frontier and the West by taking up a rich array of new subjects, including the stories of diverse peoples as well as the history of the land itself. A new generation of scholars is reformulating the broader questions also: What was the significance of the frontier in American history? What are the bases of western identity? What themes connect the twentieth-century West to its more distant past? The transformation of western history continues to be an open-ended, turbulent process. The original essays in this volume are reports from the frontier of change. In their diverging assumptions and conclusions, they reflect the vitality of this field. They succeed when they make the case for new questions and suggest possible answers. They advocate no single agenda. But taken together they well represent the passion and high craft with which scholars are creating a new western history.

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Editore
W. W. Norton and Company, Inc.
Data di pubblicazione
1993
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0393310639
ISBN 13 
9780393310634
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
372
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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9780393029932: Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past

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ISBN 10:  039302993X ISBN 13:  9780393029932
Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1992
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