LEADER 03276nam 2200613 450 001 9910824896803321 005 20230803021658.0 010 $a0-8263-5371-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000001115249 035 $a(EBL)1376974 035 $a(OCoLC)858229533 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000983187 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11617223 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000983187 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11010313 035 $a(PQKB)11211690 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1376974 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27367 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1376974 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10757406 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL515551 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001115249 100 $a20130517d2013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGlobal West, American frontier $etravel, empire, and exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression /$fDavid M. Wrobel 210 1$aAlbuquerque :$cUniversity of New Mexico Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (330 p.) 225 0$aCalvin P. Horn lectures in Western history and culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8263-5370-3 311 $a1-299-84300-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apart one. The global West of the nineteenth century -- part two. The American frontier of the twentieth century. 330 $a"This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both European and American travelers' accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville's Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counternarrative to the nation's romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to our history who deserve new attention.Prior to the professionalization of academic disciplines, travel writers found a wide and respectful audience for their reports on history, geography, and the natural world, in addition to reporting on aboriginal cultures before there was such a discipline as anthropology. In recent decades travel writers have not received much respect in the academy, but Wrobel rescues this lively genre, demonstrating that travel writers offered an understanding of the West considerably more complex than the notion of the mythic West promoted to support Manifest Destiny in the nineteenth century and American exceptionalism in the twentieth"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aCalvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture 606 $aTravel writing$xHistoriography 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xDescription and travel 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xHistoriography 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xPublic opinion 615 0$aTravel writing$xHistoriography. 676 $a978/.02 686 $aHIS054000$aHIS036040$aHIS036060$2bisacsh 700 $aWrobel$b David M$01708219 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824896803321 996 $aGlobal West, American frontier$94097080 997 $aUNINA