American west [[electronic resource] ] : competing visions / / Karen R. Jones and John Wills
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| Autore: |
Jones Karen R. <1972->
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| Titolo: |
American west [[electronic resource] ] : competing visions / / Karen R. Jones and John Wills
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| 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
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-282-08802-5 |
| 9786612088025 | |
| 0-7486-2973-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808698303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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