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Bryant Keith L. |
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Culture in the American Southwest : the earth, the sky, the people / / Keith L. Bryant, Jr |
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College Station : , : Texas A&M University, , [2001] |
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©2001 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (394 p.) |
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Collana |
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Tarleton State University southwestern studies in the humanities ; ; number 12 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Indians of North America - Cultural assimilation - Southwest, New |
Indians of North America - Southwest, New - Social life and customs |
White people - Southwest, New - Social life and customs |
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Southwest, New Cultural policy |
Southwest, New Social life and customs |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [359]-366) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Cultures & Conquests; Chapter 2. The Importation of Anglo Culture, 1850-1900; Chapter 3. Cities & Culture, 1900-1920; Chapter 4. A Regional Culture is Formulated, 1920-1940; Chapter 5. Nationalization of a Regional Culture, 1940-1960; Chapter 6. Institutional Culture/Creating Icons, 1960-1980; Chapter 7. A Renaissance with Many Voices, 1960-1980; Chapter 8. The Exportation of a Regional Culture, 1980-1995; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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If the Southwest is known for its distinctive regional culture, it is not only the indigenous influences that make it so. As Anglo Americans moved into the territories of the greater Southwest, they brought with them a desire to reestablish the highest culture of their former homes: opera, painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature. But their inherited culture was altered, challenged, and reshaped by Native American and Hispanic peoples, and a new, vibrant cultural life |
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resulted. From Houston to Los Angeles, from Tulsa to Tucson, Keith L. Bryant traces the development of ""high culture" |
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