LEADER 03879nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910877689503321 005 20230617002023.0 010 $a1-280-28437-4 010 $a9786610284375 010 $a1-4051-6585-5 010 $a1-78034-043-5 010 $a0-470-99647-1 010 $a1-4051-3848-3 010 $a1-4051-2895-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000351850 035 $a(EBL)214123 035 $a(OCoLC)55771331 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000126183 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11141357 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000126183 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10045244 035 $a(PQKB)11602839 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC214123 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL214123 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10154865 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000351850 100 $a20030916d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA companion to the American West$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by William Deverell 210 $aMalden, MA $cBlackwell Pub.$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (586 p.) 225 1 $aBlackwell companions to American history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-631-21357-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA COMPANION TO THE AMERICAN WEST; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Thinking Through the American West; 1 The Making of the First American West and the Unmaking of Other Realms; 2 Thinking West; Part II Conquest and Its Patterns: The Nineteenth Century; 3 Passion and Imagination in the Exploration of the American West; 4 Environment and the Nineteenth-Century West: Or, Process Encounters Place; 5 Engineering the Elephant: Industrialism and the Environment in the Greater West; 6 Mining and the Nineteenth-Century American West; 7 Law and the Contact of Cultures 327 $a8 Native Americans in the Nineteenth-Century American West9 Western Violence; 10 Bringing It All Back Home: Rethinking the History of Women and the Nineteenth-Century West; 11 Empire and Liberty: Contradictions and Conflicts in Nineteenth-Century Western Political History; Part III Exceptionalism or Regionalism? The Twentieth-Century American West; 12 African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West; 13 The West and Workers, 1870-1930; 14 Societies to Match the Scenery: Twentieth-Century Environmental History in the American West; 15 Where to Draw the Line? The Pacific, Place, and the US West 327 $a16 Religion and the American West17 Transients and Stickers: The Problem of Community in the American West; 18 American Indians in the Twentieth Century; 19 The New Deal's West; 20 Art, Ideology, and the West; 21 ""The West Plays West"": Western Tourism and the Landscape of Leisure; 22 Hispanics and Latinos; 23 City Lights: Urban History in the West; 24 Politics and the Twentieth-Century American West; 25 The Literary West and the Twentieth Century; Bibliography; Index 330 $aA Companion to the American West is a rigorous, illuminating introduction to the history of the American West. Twenty-five essays by expert scholars synthesize the best and most provocative work in the field and provide a comprehensive overview of themes and historiography. Covers the culture, politics, and environment of the American West through periods of migration, settlement, and modernization Discusses Native Americans and their conflicts and integration with American settlers 410 0$aBlackwell companions to American history. 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xHistory 676 $a978 701 $aDeverell$b William Francis$0919568 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910877689503321 996 $aA companion to the American West$92062596 997 $aUNINA