Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past
The history of the American West is being transformed by exciting new ideas, new questions, new scholarship. For many years this field was dominated by popular images of the lone cowboy and the savage Indian, and by Frederick Jackson Turner's concept of the frontier as a steadily advancing source of democracy and social renewal. But now historians and even the merchants of popular culture are reshaping our views of the frontier and the West by taking up a rich array of new subjects, including the stories of diverse peoples as well as the history of the land itself. A new generation of scholars is reformulating the broader questions also: Wha…
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Weitere Autoren: Miles, George (Hrsg.) / Gitlin, Jay (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-393-31063-4
- EAN: 9780393310634
- Produktnummer: 2528575
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Masse: H2.1 cm x B1.4 cm x D0.2 cm 390 g
- Auflage: Revised
- Gewicht: 390
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William Cronon is Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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