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Trails, toward a new western history, edited by Patricia Nelson Limerick, Clyde A. Milner II, Charles E. Rankin

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Trails, toward a new western history, edited by Patricia Nelson Limerick, Clyde A. Milner II, Charles E. Rankin
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-278) and index
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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
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illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Trails
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
24174549
Responsibility statement
edited by Patricia Nelson Limerick, Clyde A. Milner II, Charles E. Rankin
Sub title
toward a new western history
Summary
Reexamination of the role of the West in U.S. history and of the field of western history itself told by ten historians
Table of contents
Trails : the new western history. Beyond the Agrarian myth / Donald Worster -- Trashing the trails / Richard White -- Western women at the cultural crossroads / Peggy Pascoe -- The trail to Santa Fe : the unleashing of the western public intellectual / Patricia Nelson Limerick -- Appraising the territories : old and new western histories. What on earth is the new western history? / Patricia Nelson Limerick -- Another look at frontier/western historiography / Gerald Thompson -- The "new western history," an assessment / Michael P. Malone -- A longer, grimmer, but more interesting story / Elliott West -- American wests : historiographical perspectives / Brian W. Dippie -- The global west. Beyond the last frontier : toward a new approach to western American history / Michael P. Malone -- Frontiers and empires in the late nineteenth century / Walter Nugent -- Laying siege to western history : the emergency of new paradigms / William G. Robbins

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