The Great Plains
This classic description of the interaction between the vast central plains of America and the people who lived there has, since its first publication in 1931, been one of the most influential, widely known, and controversial works in western history. Arguing that the Great Plains environment. . .constitutes a geographic unity whose influences have been so powerful as to put a characteristic mark upon everything that survives within its borders, Webb singles out the revolver, barbed wire, and the windmill as evidence of the new phase of civilization required for settlement of that arid, treeless region. Webb draws on history, anthropology, ge…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8032-9702-9
- EAN: 9780803297029
- Produktnummer: 1524512
- Verlag: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1981
- Seitenangabe: 525 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.4 cm x D3.2 cm 596 g
- Auflage: Revised
- Gewicht: 596
Über den Autor
One of the unquestionably major historians of the American West, Walter Prescott Webb taught at London University, Oxford, and the University of Texas. He was the author of a number of highly provocative books, including The Great Frontier and this, his most famous study, The Great Plains.
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