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1405156538 978-1405156530 January 23, 2007 1
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

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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. Each essay covers a subtopic of American Western history, its major concerns, and its major works to provide a comprehensive overview of themes and historiography. The essays not only come from the perspective of the "new western history," reflecting a resurgence in both scholarly and public interest in the region, but also reflect other schools and positions, such as ethnic studies, cultural studies, and subfields of environmental and gender history. The Companion covers such topics as industrialism, women, Native Americans, exploration, religion, politics, and art. Also included is a combined bibliography to aid further research. The essays are lively, well written, and suited to the student, scholar, and all interested readers of the history of the American West.

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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. Each essay covers a subtopic of western American history, its major concerns, and its major works to provide a comprehensive overview of themes and historiography. The essays not only come from the perspective of the “new western history,” reflecting a resurgence in both scholarly and public interest in the region, but also reflect other schools and positions, such as ethnic studies, cultural studies, and subfields of environmental and gender history.

The Companion covers such topics as industrialism, women, Native Americans, exploration, religion, politics, and art. Also included is a combined bibliography to aid further research. The essays are lively, well written, and suited to the student, scholar, and all interested readers of the history of the American West.


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  • Paperback: 584 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (January 23, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1405156538
  • ISBN-13: 978-1405156530
  • Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.8 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 stars great work; discouraging price, November 10, 2006
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This is a brilliant work with several historiographic essays on the American West (Andrew C. Isenberg's, "Environment and the Nineteenth-Century West: Or, Process Encounters Place," especially jumps out at me). However, Blackwell publishing needs to get busy and issue a paperback, or something a bit more affordable. At over 100 dollars for a brand new copy, and 95 dollars for a new or used issue... Wow. Talk about making your book inaccessible to undergrads and graduate students. Well, the Yale kids can afford it. But think about us provincials at universities that are actually in the American West (I'm thinking mostly eastern Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas). Our parents don't have those durable east-coast and Berkeley kinds of bank accounts. Oh well: in DeVoto's words, a plundered provice yet again.
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4.0 out of 5 stars diverse coverage of topics, July 16, 2007
Yes, the book is unfortunately steeply priced. But perhaps readers can find it in a good library. It has many analyses of the American West. The book rightfully eschews the appelation Wild West; perhaps as being too crude for a scholarly tome.

There is a distinct effort to cover topics that do not neglect viewpoints often deprecated or totally ignored in histories written in earlier decades. So one chapter by Jameson goes into the history of pioneer women. And another by Flamming discusses Negroes. Nor is the period studied confined to the 19th century. Some passages describe the region in the post World War 2 times, especially concerning the effects of tourism.
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This compendium, like other new collections about the history of the American West, tilts to the nineteenth and twentieth century and to the country which today makes up the western United States. Read the first page
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western urban history, western legal history, western environmental history, modern western writing, black western history, western urbanization, new western history, women homesteaders, black westerners, polite racism, western political history, new western historians, western regionalism, western radicalism, urban west, new labor history, magisterial gaze, exploration enterprise, agricultural planners, plundered province, western miners, western tourism, tourist landscapes, dust bowl migrants, racial frontier
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New York, American West, United States, Los Angeles, San Francisco, University of Oklahoma Press, University of New Mexico Press, University of Nebraska Press, Oxford University Press, American Indian, World War, Native American, University Press of Kansas, African Americans, Pacific Northwest, North America, University of Illinois Press, New Haven, Yale University Press, Cambridge University Press, Great Plains, Pacific Historical Review, University of Washington Press, Frederick Jackson Turner, Harvard University Press
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