The American West
A Concise History
Problems in American History
1. Edition August 2007
256 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-21085-6
John Wiley & Sons
Tracing events from the pre-history to the present day, this book offers a concise and accessible history of the American West.
* Explores the complex interactions between and among cultures in the American West
* Chronologically organized and informed by the latest scholarship
* Grounded in attention to race, class, gender, and the environment, the text focuses on social, economic, and political forces that shaped the lived experiences of diverse westerners and influenced the patterns of western history.
Introduction.
1. First Wests, Many Wests.
2. Inside Native Wests.
3. Enforcing an American West.
4. Imperial Wests.
5. A Diverse, Urban, and Federal West.
6. Mythic West and Modern West.
Suggested Readings.
Index
1. First Wests, Many Wests.
2. Inside Native Wests.
3. Enforcing an American West.
4. Imperial Wests.
5. A Diverse, Urban, and Federal West.
6. Mythic West and Modern West.
Suggested Readings.
Index
"Anne Butler and Michael Lansing have given their best then
to a difficult task-that of writing a readable and workable history
of the American West. A noble effort, and it deserves examination
by those who teach and ponder the history of the American
West." (Western History Quarterly)
"The American West is both concise and a significant
contribution to understanding the famous region. It offers fresh
insights, which is always a good recommendation." (History,
October 2008)
"With fresh insights and lively writing, this brief volume
addresses major themes of culture, environment, politics, violence,
and popular myth-making that shaped the American West from earliest
times to the present day. By focusing on the West's diverse
peoples, women and men, Butler and Lansing underscore the
fascinating complexity of this vast region that remains vital for
an understanding of the United States and its history."
--Clyde A. Milner, Arkansas State University
"With admirable clarity, the authors analyze the
West's diverse regions, meanings, and populations across many
centuries. This is a fine, insightful book."
--William Deverell, University of Southern
California
"A wonderfully readable, thematically sophisticated survey
of western history that draws heavily on the voluminous recent
scholarship on the West to illuminate developments in race and
gender relations, labor, the environment, economics and politics,
and the region's central place in the national
imagination."
--David Wrobel, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
to a difficult task-that of writing a readable and workable history
of the American West. A noble effort, and it deserves examination
by those who teach and ponder the history of the American
West." (Western History Quarterly)
"The American West is both concise and a significant
contribution to understanding the famous region. It offers fresh
insights, which is always a good recommendation." (History,
October 2008)
"With fresh insights and lively writing, this brief volume
addresses major themes of culture, environment, politics, violence,
and popular myth-making that shaped the American West from earliest
times to the present day. By focusing on the West's diverse
peoples, women and men, Butler and Lansing underscore the
fascinating complexity of this vast region that remains vital for
an understanding of the United States and its history."
--Clyde A. Milner, Arkansas State University
"With admirable clarity, the authors analyze the
West's diverse regions, meanings, and populations across many
centuries. This is a fine, insightful book."
--William Deverell, University of Southern
California
"A wonderfully readable, thematically sophisticated survey
of western history that draws heavily on the voluminous recent
scholarship on the West to illuminate developments in race and
gender relations, labor, the environment, economics and politics,
and the region's central place in the national
imagination."
--David Wrobel, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Anne M. Butler is Trustee Professor, Emeritus, at Utah State
University and a past editor of the Western Historical
Quarterly. Author of numerous articles and books, including
Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American
West (1985), she has published extensively on matters of race,
class, and gender in western history.
Michael J. Lansing is Assistant Professor of History at
Augsburg College. His essays have appeared in the Western
Historical Quarterly, Utah Historical Quarterly,
Journal of Historical Geography, and Ethics, Place, and
Environment. He serves on the editorial board of the University
of Arizona Press monograph series "Western Women's
Voices."
University and a past editor of the Western Historical
Quarterly. Author of numerous articles and books, including
Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American
West (1985), she has published extensively on matters of race,
class, and gender in western history.
Michael J. Lansing is Assistant Professor of History at
Augsburg College. His essays have appeared in the Western
Historical Quarterly, Utah Historical Quarterly,
Journal of Historical Geography, and Ethics, Place, and
Environment. He serves on the editorial board of the University
of Arizona Press monograph series "Western Women's
Voices."
