Legacy of Conquest The Unbroken Past of the American West
Heftet /
2006
/ Engelsk
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780393304978
Publisert
2006-01-17
Utgiver
WW Norton & Co
Vekt
473 gr
Høyde
211 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
28 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
400
Forfatter
Biografisk notat
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
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780393304978
Publisert
2006-01-17
Utgiver
WW Norton & Co
Vekt
473 gr
Høyde
211 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Dybde
28 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
400
Forfatter