The Legacy Of Conquest The Unbroken Past Of The American West

Author : Patricia Nelson Limerick
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393078809
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West written by Patricia Nelson Limerick and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard White The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality; in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here she interprets the stories and the characters in a new way: the trappers, traders, Indians, farmers, oilmen, cowboys, and sheriffs of the Old West "meant business" in more ways than one, and their descendents mean business today.

Author : Patricia Limerick
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393304978
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legacy of Conquest written by Patricia Limerick and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1987-12 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study corrects the misperceptions of the American West based on representations from novels and films and shows how western history was--and is--a vast economic event.

Author : Patricia Nelson Limerick
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393023909
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of Conquest written by Patricia Nelson Limerick and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1987 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." Richard White The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here she interprets the stories and the characters in a new way: the trappers, traders, Indians, farmers, oilmen, cowboys, and sheriffs of the Old West "meant business" in more ways than one, and their descendents mean business today. 28 illustrations.

Author : Patricia Nelson Limerick
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393321029
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Something in the Soil written by Patricia Nelson Limerick and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Patricia Limerick is simply one of the best writers alive."--Garry Wills

Author : Patricia Nelson Limerick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trails written by Patricia Nelson Limerick and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reexamination of the role of the West in U.S. history and of the field of western history itself told by ten historians.

Author : William G. Robbins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colony and Empire written by William G. Robbins and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A forceful analysis of the role of capitalism in the history of the American West. This is an important contribution to the new western history that should be read by both historians and residents of the American West". -- Journal of American History. "This exciting book should take its place on the shelf next to Patricia Limerick's The Legacy of Conquest". -- Forest & Conservation History.

Author : Gary D. Libecap
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521449045
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contracting for Property Rights written by Gary D. Libecap and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The histories of rights to minerals, range, timber land, fishery and crude oil production in the U.S. are examined to reveal the problems encountered in negotiations among claimants and the political and economic considerations that influence property rights arrangements.

Author : Jason E. Pierce
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607323966
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making the White Man's West written by Jason E. Pierce and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In Making the White Man’s West, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space. Using a nuanced theory of historical “whiteness,” he examines why and how Anglo-Americans dominated the region for a 120-year period. In the early nineteenth century, critics like Zebulon Pike and Washington Irving viewed the West as a “dumping ground” for free blacks and Native Americans, a place where they could be segregated from the white communities east of the Mississippi River. But as immigrant populations and industrialization took hold in the East, white Americans began to view the West as a “refuge for real whites.” The West had the most diverse population in the nation with substantial numbers of American Indians, Hispanics, and Asians, but Anglo-Americans could control these mostly disenfranchised peoples and enjoy the privileges of power while celebrating their presence as providing a unique regional character. From this came the belief in a White Man’s West, a place ideally suited for “real” Americans in the face of changing world. The first comprehensive study to examine the construction of white racial identity in the West, Making the White Man’s West shows how these two visions of the West—as a racially diverse holding cell and a white refuge—shaped the history of the region and influenced a variety of contemporary social issues in the West today.

Author : Pierre Goubert
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113491928X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Course of French History written by Pierre Goubert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PUBLICITY TITLE

Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541672534
Total Pages : 496 pages
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Download or read book Dreams of El Dorado written by H. W. Brands and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope" (Hampton Sides), this masterfully told account of the American West from a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist sets a new standard as it sweeps from the California Gold Rush and beyond. In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. He shows how the migrants' dreams drove them to feats of courage and perseverance that put their stay-at-home cousins to shame-and how those same dreams also drove them to outrageous acts of violence against indigenous peoples and one another. The West was where riches would reward the miner's persistence, the cattleman's courage, the railroad man's enterprise; but El Dorado was at least as elusive in the West as it ever was in the East. Balanced, authoritative, and masterfully told, Dreams of El Dorado sets a new standard for histories of the American West.