Making a Modern U.S. West: The Contested Terrain of a Region and Its Borders, 1898-1940 (History of the American West) 9781496229557, 9781496228611, 2021007076, 149622955X

Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West 0190053674, 9780190053673

A groundbreaking history of how the US Post made the nineteenth-century American West. There were five times as many po

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The American West: A New Interpretive History 9780300160598

Two eminent historians, Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher, present the American West as both frontier and region, re

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Germany and 'The West': The History of a Modern Concept 9781782385981

“The West” is a central idea in German public discourse, yet historians know surprisingly little about the evolution of

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The American West: A New Interpretive History 0300078331, 9780300078336

A survey of frontier history, tracing the story from the first Columbian contacts between Indians and Europeans to the m

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The American West: A New Interpretive History [Second Edition] 9780300231786

A fully revised and updated new edition of the classic history of western America

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Carleton Watkins: Making the West American 9780520963023

 "[a] fascinating and indispensable book."—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times Carleton Watkins (1829–1916

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Mirage in the West: A History of the French Image of American Society to 1815 9781400875078

"... a gracefully written, brief, but remarkably complete account of the varieties and vicissitudes of French opini

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Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (History of the American West) 2022013275, 9781496233585, 9781496234445, 1496233581

In Continental Reckoning renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the American West and its vita

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The Making of the Great West 9781582184395

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Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West (Environment and Region in the American West) [New ed.] 1496229541, 9781496229540

Historical narratives often concentrate on wars and politics while omitting the central role and influence of the physic

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