Author : Gerald D. Nash
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,17 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780155074200
THE AMERICAN WEST chronicles one of the most dynamic regions in the United States, focusing on the people who developed it in the half century after 1945. The book treats both the many accomplishments and the major problems that developed during that 50 years of growth.
Author : Anne M. Butler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,52 MB
Release : 2007-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0631210865
Tracing events from the pre-history to the present day, this book offers a concise and accessible history of the American West. Explores the complex interactions between and among cultures in the American West Chronologically organized and informed by the latest scholarship Grounded in attention to race, class, gender, and the environment, the text focuses on social, economic, and political forces that shaped the lived experiences of diverse westerners and influenced the patterns of western history.
Author : Gerald D. Nash
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 14,50 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803283602
The industrialization of the American West during World War II brought about rapid and far-reaching social, cultural, and economic changes. Gerald D. Nash shows that the effect of the war on that region was nothing less than explosive.
Author : Daniel R. Brower
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 17,22 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN :
This brief book stresses the profound global transformation that has occurred since 1945 as a result of the collapse of the remaining great colonial empires, and the emergence of nation-states throughout the world. Its thematic emphasis makes clear as well the importance of the Cold War in influencing the process by which these nation-states sought to create new ideals and new institutions--to insure order and justice within their boundaries, and find places within the international community. The book also links the new nation-states in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, with the ethnic conflicts, local wars, and terrorist movements that became increasingly prevalent toward the end of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. For a world-historical perspective on contemporary civilization.
Author : Walter Nugent
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 20,94 MB
Release : 1999-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253212900
The American West has generated exceptional attention in the past few years, and new scholarship and interpretations have enriched and enlivened the study of its history. Each of the seventeen exciting and provocative essays chosen for this book illuminates an important topic in Western history. Three opening essays by the editors define the West as frontier and region, and place American frontiers in comparative context. Then follow essays that consider women's property rights in Spanish-Mexican California; the mountain men and national identity; Indians and bison on the Great Plains in the early nineteenth century; the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848; the Latter-day Saints from 1830 to 1890; the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 as a case of Indian-white conflict; cowboys as wage workers in the 1880s; homesteading and the homesteading ideal; miners and ethnic conflict in early-twentieth-century Arizona; the Great Depression in Idaho; how World War II changed Los Angeles; Japanese-American women in World War II; African Americans in the West; and the Pacific Northwest since 1945. The editors also provide a general introduction to the study of Western history and a time line of important events.
Author : Richard W. Etulain
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 31,59 MB
Release : 1996-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816516834
Describes changes in how the West has been seen, from a male-dominated frontier, to a region with a powerful sense of place, to a modern center of both genders, ethnic groups, and environmental interests
Author : Earl S. Pomeroy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 12,58 MB
Release : 2008-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0300142676
In this richly insightful survey that represents the culmination of decades of research, a leading western specialist argues that the unique history of the American West did not end in the year 1900, as is commonly assumed, but was shaped as much--if not more--by events and innovations in the twentieth century. Earl Pomeroy gathers copious information on economic, political, social, intellectual, and business issues, thoughtfully evaluates it, and draws a new and more nuanced portrait of the West than has ever been depicted before. Pomeroy mines extensive published and unpublished sources to show how the post-1900 West charted a path that was influenced by, but separate from, the rest of the country and the world. He deals not only with the West's transition from an agricultural to an urban region but also with the important contributions of minority racial and ethnic groups and women in that transformation. Pomeroy describes a modern West--increasingly urban, transnational, and multicultural--that has overcome much of the isolation that challenged it at an earlier time. His final book is nothing short of the definitive source on that West.
Author : Tony Judt
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 29,40 MB
Release : 2006-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143037750
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year “Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enormous authority.” —The Wall Street Journal “Magisterial . . . It is, without a doubt, the most comprehensive, authoritative, and yes, readable postwar history.” —The Boston Globe Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers through thirty-four nations and sixty years of political and cultural change-all in one integrated, enthralling narrative. Both intellectually ambitious and compelling to read, thrilling in its scope and delightful in its small details, Postwar is a rare joy. Judt's book, Ill Fares the Land, republished in 2021 featuring a new preface by bestselling author of Between the World and Me and The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Author : Nancy Reagin
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 2021-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1609387902
Who owns the West? -- Buffalo Bill and Karl May : the origins of German Western fandom -- A wall runs through it : western fans in the two Germanies -- Little houses on the prairie -- "And then the American Indians came over" : fan responses to indigenous resurgence and political change -- Indians into Confederates : historical fiction fans, reenactors, and living history.
Author : Michael P. Malone
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 15,54 MB
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803260221
Chronicles the history of the American West during the twentieth century, tracing economical, political, social, and cultural developments in the region from 1900 to the turn of the twenty-first century, in an updated edition that includes new sections that explore the roles of ethnic groups in the new West, urban developments, western women, and events since the mid-1980s. Original.
