A Companion to the American West [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Deverell William <1962-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (586 p.) |
Disciplina | 978 |
Collana | Blackwell companions to American history |
Soggetto topico | West (U.S.) - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-78268-674-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
A 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
8 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 16 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463062703321 |
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Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008 | ||
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A Companion to the American West [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Deverell William <1962-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (586 p.) |
Disciplina | 978 |
Collana | Blackwell companions to American history |
Soggetto topico | West (U.S.) - History |
ISBN | 1-78268-674-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
A 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
8 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 16 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787581203321 |
Deverell William <1962->
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Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008 | ||
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Water and Los Angeles : A Tale of Three Rivers, 1900-1941 / / William Deverell and Tom Sitton |
Autore | Deverell William <1962-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2017] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 158 pages) : PDF, digital file(s) |
Disciplina | 333.91/620979409041 |
Soggetto topico |
Rivers - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century
Water-supply - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th century
academic america california colorado river development environment environmentalist global power government la los angeles river los angeles metropolitan natural history owens river river system scholarly social studies southern california study suburban three rivers united states urban growth water |
ISBN | 0-520-96597-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Rivers of growth -- Harnessing the rivers -- Rivers in nature. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996328039003316 |
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Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2017] | ||
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Water and Los Angeles : A Tale of Three Rivers, 1900-1941 / / William Deverell and Tom Sitton |
Autore | Deverell William <1962-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2017] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 158 pages) : PDF, digital file(s) |
Disciplina | 333.91/620979409041 |
Soggetto topico |
Rivers - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century
Water-supply - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
9780520965973
0520965973 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Rivers of growth -- Harnessing the rivers -- Rivers in nature. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910153564003321 |
Deverell William <1962->
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Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2017] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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