Pubbl/distr/stampa	[Place of publication not identified] : , : Pickle Partners Publishing, , [2015]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (208 pages)
Disciplina	978
Soggetto topico	Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.)
ISBN	1-78625-207-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910158782103321

Autore	Flamming Douglas
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Santa Barbara, Calif., : ABC-CLIO, c2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (378 p.)
Disciplina	978.0496073
Collana	Cultures in the American West
Soggetto topico	African Americans - West (U.S.) - History African Americans - West (U.S.) - Social conditions African Americans - West (U.S.) African American pioneers - West (U.S.) - History Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.)
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-29493-8 9786612294938 1-59884-003-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Series Introduction""; ""Preface""; ""Maps""; ""1 The African American West: Getting Started""; ""Defining the West""; ""Why Study the West?""; ""Americans of African Descent""; ""About This Book""; ""2 Frontiers of Slavery and Freedom, 1815â€?1865""; ""Slavery on the Early Frontier""; ""The Community Impulse""; ""Black Individualism""; ""Texas and Slavery""; ""Indian Territory and Slavery""; ""The Mexican War""; ""The California Gold Rush""; ""The Slavery Cases and Colored Conventions""; ""Beyond the West of Bondage?""; ""The West and the Civil War"" ""Conclusion""""Bibliographic Essay""; ""3 Trailblazers in the New West, 1866â€?1890""; ""The Cowboys""; ""Soldiering West""; ""To Kansas!""; ""Oklahoma""; ""The Black Towns""; ""The Rise of the Urban West""; ""Building ""Community""""; ""Bibliographic Essay""; ""4 Seeking Freedom in the West, 1890â€?1920""; ""A Different Kind of Black Experience""; ""The South in Crisis""; ""The ""Talented Tenth"" Migration""; ""The Great Migration""; ""No Rush Westward""; ""Community Life in the Black West""; ""The Afro-American Council""; ""The Colored Women's Clubs""; ""The Rise of the NAACP"" ""World War I""""Bibliographic Essay""; ""5 Between the World Wars, 1920â€?1940""; ""The Tulsa Race Riot""; ""The Second Ku Klux Klan""; ""Garveyism out West""; ""The New Negro Renaissance""; ""The NAACP Convention of 1928""; ""The Great Depression and the New Deal""; ""Bibliographic Essay""; ""6 World War II and the Great Transformation""; ""The Defense Economy""; ""The Second Great Migration""; ""The Role of the Federal Government""; ""Race and Organized Labor""; ""The Port Chicago Disaster""; ""The Housing Crisis""; ""Liberty Ships""; ""Bibliographic Essay"" ""7 The Era of Racial Liberalism, 1945â€?1965""""An Even Greater Migration""; ""The Housing Crises""; ""Fighting for Civil Rights""; ""Direct-Action Protests""; ""Direct Action in the West""; ""Sports and Entertainment""; ""The Political Arena""; ""Bibliographic Essay""; ""8 The Era of Black Nationalism, 1965â€?1980""; ""The Black West as Trendsetter""; ""Rebellion in Watts""; ""The Aftermath""; """"Black Power!""""; ""Karenga and Kwanzaa""; ""The Black Panthers""; ""Angela Davis and Che-Lumumba""; ""Civil Rights in the West (continued . . .)""; ""The Electoral Arena"" ""The 1968 Olympic Games""""Blacks and Hollywood""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliographic Essay""; ""9 The African American West since 1980: Decline and Success""; ""The Urban Crisis""; ""The Rodney King Beating""; ""The L.A. Riot""; ""Gangsta Rap""; ""Willie Brown: Political Star""; ""Sports as the Great Equalizer?""; ""Suburbanization""; ""Leaving the West""; ""Bibliographic Essay""; ""10 Historiography and Current Issues""; ""The Historiography of the Black West""; ""A New Wave of Multiracial History?""; ""A ""Minority Majority""?""; ""Chronology""; ""Glossary""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D"" ""E""
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910459162003321

Autore	Roberts Brian <1957->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2000
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (356 p.)
Disciplina	979.4/04
Collana	Cultural studies of the United States
Soggetto topico	Frontier and pioneer life - California Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.) Pioneers - California - History - 19th century Pioneers - Northeastern States - History - 19th century Middle class - California - History - 19th century Middle class - Northeastern States - History - 19th century
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8078-6093-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. California Gold and Filthy Lucre; 2. Gold Fever as a Cure; 3. Husbands and Wives; 4. Numberless Highways to Fairy Grottos; 5. A Great and Perverse Paradise; Section of Illustrations; 6. California Is a Humbug; 7. Widows and Helpmates; 8. A Wild, Free, Disorderly, Grotesque Society; 9. The Prude Fails; 10. The End of the Flush Times; Conclusion; Notes; Index;
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910455874803321

Autore	Wooster Robert <1956->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, 2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (381 p.)
Disciplina	355.00978/09034
Collana	Histories of the American frontier
Soggetto topico	Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.)
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-62165-7 9786613934109 0-8263-3845-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Defeat and victory in the Ohio Valley -- Sword of the nation -- Sharpening the nation's sword -- Asserting national sovereignty -- The wars of Indian removal -- Agent of manifest destiny -- Constabularies in blue -- Frontier regulars and the collapse of the Union -- Civil wars in the borderlands -- The regulars return -- Testing the peace policy -- Conquest of a continent -- Epilogue : the long frontier.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910464529403321