| A New Significance: Re-Envisioning the History of the American West Contributor(s): Milner, Clyde A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195100484 ISBN-13: 9780195100488 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $93.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1996 Annotation: Gathering the best of essays produced at a conference at Utah State University, this collections aims to produce compelling assessment of the newest Western historiography. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 978 |
| LCCN: 95-53151 |
| Lexile Measure: 1550 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.06" W x 9.19" (1.03 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1893, Fredrick Jackson Turner published his revolutionary essay, The Significance of the Frontier in American History. A century later, many of the country's most innovative scholars of Western history assembled at a conference at Utah State University under the direction of historian Clyde A. Milner II. Here they delivered essays meant to map the exciting new territory opened in recent years in the history of the West. Gathering the best of these essays, this collection aims to produce a compelling assessment of the newest Western historiography. The entries include William Deverell on the significance of the West in American history; David Gutiérrez on Mexican Americans; Susan Rhodes Neel on nature and the environment; Gail M. Nomura on Asia and Asian Americans; Anne F. Hyde on cultural perceptions; David Rich Lewis on Native Americans; Susan Lee Johnson on men, women, and gender; and Qunitard Taylor on race and African-Americans. Each essay is accompanied by commentaries written by other top scholars, and the eminent historian Allan G. Bogue supplies a penetrating introduction. |