A Companion to the American West - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:William DeverellSeries:Wiley Blackwell Companions to American HistoryTheme:Cultural Region/Western U.S.Publish date:1/16/2007Pages:592
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Wiley-BlackwellISBN-13:9781405156530ISBN-10:1405156538UPC:9781405156530Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, Americas (North Central South West Indies)Book Topic:State & LocalSize:9.60 x 6.70 x 1.20 inchesWeight:0.999Product ID:SCTS4P5TFZ
A Companion to the American West is a rigorous, illuminating introduction to the history of the American West. Twenty-five essays by expert scholars synthesize the best and most provocative work in the field and provide a comprehensive overview of themes and historiography.
- Covers the culture, politics, and environment of the American West through periods of migration, settlement, and modernization
- Discusses Native Americans and their conflicts and integration with American settlers
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Wiley-BlackwellISBN-13:9781405156530ISBN-10:1405156538UPC:9781405156530Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, Americas (North Central South West Indies)Book Topic:State & LocalSize:9.60 x 6.70 x 1.20 inchesWeight:0.999Product ID:SCTS4P5TFZ
William Deverell is Professor of History at the University of Southern California and director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. He is the author of Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910 (1994) and Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past (2004). He co-authored Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region (2000) and The West in the History of the Nation (2000) and co-edited California Progressivism Revisited (1994) and Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (2001).
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