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Sto caricando le informazioni... Empires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800-1860 (edizione 2012)di Anne F. Hyde (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaEmpires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800-1860 di Anne F. Hyde
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A sprawling account of the Trans-Mississippi West between the consummation of the Louisiana Purchase and the outbreak of the American Civil War, the author uses the fur trade (at least initially) as a lens to illustrate how the West could have developed in a more organic fashion, without the near annihilation of the Indian nations in the face of the massive waves of settler colonialism; none of these frontier merchants achieved much without a willingness to take the cultural norms of the First Nations seriously. I'm not quite as impressed with this work as I thought I might be in the sense that it could have used more focus. Still, the author does do the popular historiography of the West a service by reminding the reader of the violence and chaos and injustice of it all. ( )
A sharp reframing of the history of the early Western frontier in personal terms. At the outset of this elegantly written study, winner of the Bancroft Prize and a finalist for last year's Pulitzer Prize (the book was first published in 2011 by the University of Nebraska Press)...Hyde's book sheds considerable light on the 19th-century development of the nation. Highly recommended. Appartiene alle SerieHistory of the American West (2011) Premi e riconoscimenti
The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 doubled the size of the new United States, promising not only land but prosperity for its citizens. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)978.02History and Geography North America Western U.S. 19th CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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