Power And Place In The North American West
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Power And Place In The North American West
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Author : Richard White
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2012-09-01
Power And Place In The North American West written by Richard White and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-01 with History categories.
Western historians continue to seek new ways of understanding the particular mixture of physical territory, human actions, outside influences, and unique expectations that has made the North American West what it is today. This collection of twelve essays tackles the subject of power and place from several angles�Indians and non-Indians, race and gender, environment and economy�to gain insight into major forces at work during two centuries of western history. The essays, related to one another by their concern with how power is exercised in, over, and by western places, cover a wide range of times and topics, from 18th-century Spanish New Mexico to 19th-century British Columbia to 20th-century Sun Valley and Los Angeles. They encompass analyses of the concept and rhetoric of race, theoretical speculations on gender and powerlessness, and insights on the causes of current environmental crises.
Britain And The Balance Of Power In North America 1815 1908
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Author : Kenneth Bourne
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1967
Britain And The Balance Of Power In North America 1815 1908 written by Kenneth Bourne and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Great Britain categories.
Hunger For The Wild
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Author : Michael L. Johnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Hunger For The Wild written by Michael L. Johnson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Americans have had an enduring yet ambivalent obsession with the West as both a place and a state of mind. Michael L. Johnson considers how that obsession originated, how it has determined attitudes toward and activities in the West, and how it has changed over the centuries.
The North American West In The Twenty First Century
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Author : Brenden W. Rensink
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2022
The North American West In The Twenty First Century written by Brenden W. Rensink and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with HISTORY categories.
This edited volume takes stories from the "modern West" of the late twentieth century and carefully pulls them toward the present--explicitly tracing continuity with and unexpected divergence from trajectories established in the 1980s and 1990s.
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America History And Life
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language : en
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Release Date : 2004
America History And Life written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Canada categories.
Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
Empires Nations And Families
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Author : Anne Farrar Hyde
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2011-07-01
Empires Nations And Families written by Anne Farrar Hyde and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-01 with History categories.
To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little difference: the United States was just another imperial overlord to be assessed and manipulated. This was not, as Empires, Nations, and Families makes clear, virgin wilderness discovered by virtuous Anglo entrepreneurs. Rather, the United States was a newcomer in a place already complicated by vying empires. This book documents the broad family associations that crossed national and ethnic lines and that, along with the river systems of the trans-Mississippi West, formed the basis for a global trade in furs that had operated for hundreds of years before the land became part of the United States. ø Empires, Nations, and Families shows how the world of river and maritime trade effectively shifted political power away from military and diplomatic circles into the hands of local people. Tracing family stories from the Canadian North to the Spanish and Mexican borderlands and from the Pacific Coast to the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, Anne F. Hyde?s narrative moves from the earliest years of the Indian trade to the Mexican War and the gold rush era. Her work reveals how, in the 1850s, immigrants to these newest regions of the United States violently wrested control from Native and other powers, and how conquest and competing demands for land and resources brought about a volatile frontier culture?not at all the peace and prosperity that the new power had promised.
Making The White Man S West
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Author : Jason E. Pierce
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2016-01-15
Making The White Man S West written by Jason E. Pierce and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-15 with History categories.
The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In Making the White Man’s West, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space. Using a nuanced theory of historical “whiteness,” he examines why and how Anglo-Americans dominated the region for a 120-year period. In the early nineteenth century, critics like Zebulon Pike and Washington Irving viewed the West as a “dumping ground” for free blacks and Native Americans, a place where they could be segregated from the white communities east of the Mississippi River. But as immigrant populations and industrialization took hold in the East, white Americans began to view the West as a “refuge for real whites.” The West had the most diverse population in the nation with substantial numbers of American Indians, Hispanics, and Asians, but Anglo-Americans could control these mostly disenfranchised peoples and enjoy the privileges of power while celebrating their presence as providing a unique regional character. From this came the belief in a White Man’s West, a place ideally suited for “real” Americans in the face of changing world. The first comprehensive study to examine the construction of white racial identity in the West, Making the White Man’s West shows how these two visions of the West—as a racially diverse holding cell and a white refuge—shaped the history of the region and influenced a variety of contemporary social issues in the West today.
The Atomic West
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Author : Bruce W. Hevly
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2011-12-01
The Atomic West written by Bruce W. Hevly and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-01 with History categories.
The Manhattan Project—the World War II race to produce an atomic bomb—transformed the entire country in myriad ways, but it did not affect each region equally. Acting on an enduring perception of the American West as an “empty” place, the U.S. government located a disproportionate number of nuclear facilities—particularly the ones most likely to spread pollution—in western states. The Manhattan Project manufactured plutonium at Hanford, Washington; designed and assembled bombs at Los Alamos, New Mexico; and detonated the world’s first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, New Mexico, on June 16, 1945. In the years that followed the war, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission selected additional western sites for its work. Many westerners initially welcomed the atom. Like federal officials, they, too, regarded their region as “empty,” or underdeveloped. Facilities to make, test, and base atomic weapons, sites to store nuclear waste, and even nuclear power plants were regarded as assets. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, regional attitudes began to change. At a variety of locales, ranging from Eskimo Alaska to Mormon Utah, westerners devoted themselves to resisting the atom and its effects on their environments and communities. Just as the atomic age had dawned in the American West, so its artificial sun began to set there. The Atomic West brings together contributions from several disciplines to explore the impact on the West of the development of atomic power from wartime secrecy and initial postwar enthusiasm to public doubts and protest in the 1970s and 1980s. An impressive example of the benefits of interdisciplinary studies on complex topics, The Atomic West advances our understanding of both regional history and the history of science, and does so with human communities as a significant focal point. The book will be of special interest to students and experts on the American West, environmental history, and the history of science and technology.
Power And Promise
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Author : Gary Clayton Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman
Release Date : 2007-11
Power And Promise written by Gary Clayton Anderson and has been published by Addison-Wesley Longman this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11 with West (U.S.) categories.
The Changing West blends social, political, intellectual and environmental history to offer an in-depth study of this often mythic region and its peoples, from pre-Columbian times to the 21st century. User-friendly, streamlined and attentive to the most recent scholarship, this comprehensive history of the American West is written specifically for an undergraduate audience.