Legacy of Conquest The Unbroken Past of the American West
Heftet /
2006
/ Engelsk
Product details
ISBN
9780393304978
Published
2006-01-17
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Weight
473 gr
Height
211 mm
Width
140 mm
Thickness
28 mm
Age
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
400
Author
Biographical note
Patricia Nelson Limerick is a professor of history and chair of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Boulder."In stripping the frontier of kitsch fantasy, Patricia Limerick has prised us away from an Ivy League model of a land of conquest and open opportunity. She offers instead the earthy, uncomfortable reality of a living west." The Guardian"
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.
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"Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard White
Product details
ISBN
9780393304978
Published
2006-01-17
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Weight
473 gr
Height
211 mm
Width
140 mm
Thickness
28 mm
Age
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
400
Author