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Author(s): William Deverell
ISBN(s): 9780631213574, 0631213570
Edition: 1
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Year: 2004
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0631213570 
ISBN 13: 9780631213574
Author: William Deverell

A Companion to the American West is a rigorous, illuminating introduction to the history of the American West. Twenty-five essays by expert scholars synthesize the best and most provocative work in the field and provide a comprehensive overview of themes and historiography.

  • Covers the culture, politics, and environment of the American West through periods of migration, settlement, and modernization
  • Discusses Native Americans and their conflicts and integration with American settlers

A Companion to the American West Blackwell Companions to American History 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Thinking Through the American West

  1. The Making of the First American West and the Unmaking of Other Realms
    Stephen Aron

  2. Thinking West
    Elliott West

Part II: Conquest and Its Patterns: The Nineteenth Century

  1. Passion and Imagination in the Exploration of the American West
    James P. Ronda

  2. Environment and the Nineteenth-Century West: Or, Process Encounters Place
    Andrew C. Isenberg

  3. Engineering the Elephant: Industrialism and the Environment in the Greater West
    David Igler

  4. Mining and the Nineteenth-Century American West
    Malcolm J. Rohrbough

  5. Law and the Contact of Cultures
    Sarah Barringer Gordon

  6. Native Americans in the Nineteenth-Century American West
    David Rich Lewis

  7. Western Violence
    Michael A. Bellesiles

  8. Bringing It All Back Home: Rethinking the History of Women and the Nineteenth-Century West
    Elizabeth Jameson

  9. Empire and Liberty: Contradictions and Conflicts in Nineteenth-Century Western Political History
    Jeffrey Ostler

Part III: Exceptionalism or Regionalism? The Twentieth-Century American West

  1. African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West
    Douglas Flamming

  2. The West and Workers, 1870–1930
    James N. Gregory

  3. Societies to Match the Scenery: Twentieth-Century Environmental History in the American West
    Dan Flores

  4. Where to Draw the Line? The Pacific, Place, and the US West
    Chris Friday

  5. Religion and the American West
    Philip Goff

  6. Transients and Stickers: The Problem of Community in the American West
    Anne Hyde

  7. American Indians in the Twentieth Century
    Peter Iverson

  8. The New Deal’s West
    Karen R. Merrill

  9. Art, Ideology, and the West
    Douglas R. Nickel

  10. “The West Plays West”: Western Tourism and the Landscape of Leisure
    Marguerite S. Shaffer

  11. Hispanics and Latinos
    Ramón A. Gutiérrez

  12. City Lights: Urban History in the West
    Robert O. Self

  13. Politics and the Twentieth-Century American West
    William Deverell

  14. The Literary West and the Twentieth Century
    David M. Wrobel

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