| Essays on the Changing Images of the Southwest Contributor(s): Francaviglia, Richard V. (Editor), Narrett, David E. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0890966206 ISBN-13: 9780890966204 Publisher: Texas A&M University Press OUR PRICE: $25.69 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 1995 Annotation: The American Southwest has been variously celebrated as a place of enormous beauty with a sense of deep historical roots and condemned as a place without any past or, indeed, an inhabitable present. The extremes of southwestern life modern and traditional, urban and rural, tame and wild, ugly and beautiful, polluted and pure - pervade the region. How America has come to view the Southwest and its distinctive images - and why it has formed these views - is the subject of this intriguing interdisciplinary book. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 979 |
| LCCN: 94018599 |
| Lexile Measure: 1540 |
| Series: Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.29" W x 9.31" (1.04 lbs) 168 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Why has the American Southwest been celebrated as a place of beauty and history even as it was condemned as a place without any past or, indeed, an inhabitable present? The contributors to this volume all address how and why America's image of the Southwest has evolved. D. W. Meinig once wrote: "The Southwest is a distinctive place to the American mind but a somewhat blurred place on American maps." Actually, it has been a somewhat blurred place even to the mind. The Southwest's physical extremes--urban and rural, tame and wild, ugly and beautiful, polluted and pure--complicate its image, but with the well-researched and thought-provoking contributions of this volume, the region achieves clearer definition. Generous illustrations help to underscore the authors' points. |