| Community in the American West Contributor(s): Tchudi, Stephen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1890591033 ISBN-13: 9781890591038 Publisher: Nevada Humanities Committee OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 1999 Annotation: Community in the American West brings together photographers, poets, and essayists, to explore historical and contemporary views of "community" in the American West. Writers reject fine tradition of judging western communities in terms of established values from fine Eastern U.S. and Europe, and they develop dimensions of the concept of community by studying such diverse settings and populations as the coal country of Colorado, fine southern California suburbs, and the lives of ethnic and cultural minorities. Although the writers specifically discuss community in the West, the message deriving from the collection is a broader one that links this book to long-standing traditions in the humanities: This book is about the community of humankind. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 306.097 |
| LCCN: 99179506 |
| Series: Halcyon Imprint |
| Physical Information: 1.18" H x 6" W x 9.02" (1.77 lbs) 377 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Nevada |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This work brings together photographers, poets and essayists to explore historical and contemporary views of community in the American West. Writers reject the tradition of judging western communities in terms of established values from the Eastern US and Europe, and they develop dimensions of the concept of community by studying such diverse settings and populations as the coal country of Colorado, the southern California suburbs, and the lives of ethnic and cultural minorities. Although the writers specifically discuss community in the West, the message deriving from the collection is a broader one that links this book to long-standing traditions in the humanities: this is a book about the community of humankind. |