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UNINA9910808698303321 |
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Autore |
Jones Karen R. <1972-> |
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Titolo |
American west : competing visions / / Karen R. Jones and John Wills |
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Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-08802-5 |
9786612088025 |
0-7486-2973-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (353 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.) |
West (U.S.) Historiography |
West (U.S.) In popular culture |
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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 (p. [324]-337) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Copyright; Contents; Figures; Introduction; Part One Old West; Chapter 1 Lewis and Clark: Mapping the West; Chapter 2 Frontier Germ Theory; Chapter 3 'The Gun that Won the West'; Chapter 4 Cowboy Presidents and the Political Branding of the American West; Part Two New West; Chapter 5 Women in the West: The Trailblazer and the Homesteader; Chapter 6 Women in the West: The 'Indian Princess' and the 'Lady Wildcat'; Chapter 7 The Wild West Defiled: The American Indian, Genocide and the Sand Creek Massacre; Chapter 8 The Thirsty West: Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam and Las Vegas |
Part Three Recreating The WestChapter 9 The Western Renaissance: Brokeback Mountain and the Return of Jesse James; Chapter 10 The Arcade Western; Chapter 11 Turn here for 'The Sunny Side of the Atom': Tourism, the Bomb and Popular Culture in the Nuclear West; Chapter 12 Re-creation and the Theme Park West; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The American West used to be a story of gunfights, glory, wagon trails, and linear progress. Historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner and Hollywood movies such as Stagecoach (1939) and Shane (1953) cast the trans-Mississippi region as a frontier of epic proportions where 'savagery' met 'civilization' and boys became men. |
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