Mythmakers Of The West

Author : John A. Murray
Publisher : Northland Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mythmakers of the West written by John A. Murray and published by Northland Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait, in stories and pictures, of the many ways the American West has been depicted in art, film, literature, music, and popular culture.

Author : Michael Rutter
Publisher : M J F Books
ISBN 13 : 9781567317701
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myths and Mysteries of the Old West written by Michael Rutter and published by M J F Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the legend and lore behind such notorious figures as Billy the Kid and Calamity Jane and the stories of famous gun fights and battles, telling what really happened.

Author : David Hamilton Murdoch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American West written by David Hamilton Murdoch and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In addition to presenting a sustained analysis of how and why the myth originated, Murdoch demonstrates that the myth was invented, for the most part deliberately, and then outgrew the purposes of its inventors. 'The American West' answers the questions that have too often been either begged or ignored. Why should the West become the focus for myth in the first place, and why, given the long process of western settlement, is the cattleman's West so central and the cowboy, of all prototypes, the mythic hero? And why should the myth have retained its potency up to the last decade of the twentieth century?"--Back cover.

Author : Greg Grandin
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1250179815
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of the Myth written by Greg Grandin and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE A new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump’s border wall. Ever since this nation’s inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing a future of endless promise, it was the foundation of the United States’ belief in itself as an exceptional nation – democratic, individualistic, forward-looking. Today, though, America hasa new symbol: the border wall. In The End of the Myth, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin explores the meaning of the frontier throughout the full sweep of U.S. history – from the American Revolution to the War of 1898, the New Deal to the election of 2016. For centuries, he shows, America’s constant expansion – fighting wars and opening markets – served as a “gate of escape,” helping to deflect domestic political and economic conflicts outward. But this deflection meant that the country’s problems, from racism to inequality, were never confronted directly. And now, the combined catastrophe of the 2008 financial meltdown and our unwinnable wars in the Middle East have slammed this gate shut, bringing political passions that had long been directed elsewhere back home. It is this new reality, Grandin says, that explains the rise of reactionary populism and racist nationalism, the extreme anger and polarization that catapulted Trump to the presidency. The border wall may or may not be built, but it will survive as a rallying point, an allegorical tombstone marking the end of American exceptionalism.

Author : Estella Lauter
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253115027
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women as Mythmakers written by Estella Lauter and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1984-07-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... impressive work of scholarship..." -- Exceptional Human Experience

Author : Henry Art Gallery
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth of the West written by Henry Art Gallery and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a period from 1832 to the present, and beginning with some of the earliest renderings of Western art by artists of the European tradition, here is the work of such famous artists as George Catlin, Frederic Remington, and many others. Essays by experts in the field analyze the historic West and its relevance in mainstream American culture.

Author : J. W. Schulte Nordholt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of the West written by J. W. Schulte Nordholt and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this fascinating book is the rise, flourishing, and decline of the heliotropic myth, the centuries-old belief that all history is a succession of great civilizations developing, like the movement of the sun, from the East to the West. America is in this vision the last empire, indeed, the fulfillment of history. Esteemed historian Jan Willem Schulte Nordholt draws on works of world poetry and other sources in describing the importance of the heliotropic myth and shows how the expectation of a final completion of history gave meaning and coherence to our civilization and how the mythic yearning for a better world drove our ancestors to distant lands ever farther westward. Now in the twentieth century, with all western horizons gone and the realities of societal life - even in America - not so utopian, we no longer dare to believe in the values of the West and prefer to live instead with an extraordinarily tolerant cultural relativism. With the approach of the new millennium - once predicted by the heliotropic myth to be a time of brilliant living - Schulte Nordholt's work not only offers a perspective that will enhance all areas of study in American and world history, but provokes a fresh desire for the real meaning of human history.

Author : Daniel Garrison Brinton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Hero-myths written by Daniel Garrison Brinton and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1882, this volume contains a study of native religions of the western continent, including American hero-myths.

Author : Richard W. Etulain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myths and the American West written by Richard W. Etulain and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Brinton
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 504123762X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Hero-Myths: A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent written by Daniel Brinton and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: