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American west : competing visions / / Karen R. Jones and John Wills



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Autore: Jones Karen R. <1972-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: American west : competing visions / / Karen R. Jones and John Wills Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
Disciplina: 978.0072
Soggetto topico: Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.)
Soggetto geografico: West (U.S.) Historiography
West (U.S.) In popular culture
Altri autori: WillsJohn  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [324]-337) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: American west  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-08802-5
9786612088025
0-7486-2973-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910808698303321
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