The American West and Its Interpreters

The American West and Its Interpreters
Author: Richard W. Etulain
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2023-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0826364462

Distinguished historian Richard W. Etulain brings together a generous selection of essays from his sixty-year career as a specialist on the US West in this essential volume. Each essay provides an invaluable overview of the rise of western literary history and historiography—including insightful evaluations of individual historians—revealing summaries of regional literature and discussions of western stories yet to be told. Together these writings furnish readers with useful considerations of important subjects about the American West. All those interested in the American West and its interpreters will find these illuminative moments of literary history and historiography especially appealing.

The American West and Its Interpreters

The American West and Its Interpreters
Author: Richard W. Etulain
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2023-05
Genre: American fiction
ISBN: 0826364454

Distinguished historian Richard W. Etulain brings together a generous selection of essays from his sixty-year career as a specialist on the US West in this essential volume. Each essay provides an invaluable overview of the rise of western literary history and historiography--including insightful evaluations of individual historians--revealing summaries of regional literature and discussions of western stories yet to be told. Together these writings furnish readers with useful considerations of important subjects about the American West. All those interested in the American West and its interpreters will find these illuminative moments of literary history and historiography especially appealing.

Beyond the Missouri

Beyond the Missouri
Author: Richard W. Etulain
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780826340337

This new historical overview tells the dramatic story of the American West from its prehistory to the present. A narrative history, it covers the region from the North Dakota-to-Texas states to the Pacific Coast and includes experiences and contributions of American Indians, Hispanics, and African Americans.

Under Western Skies

Under Western Skies
Author: Donald Worster
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 305
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195086716

ns explore our environmental history, uncover the role of nature and the land in the western past, and examine the West as the world's first multicultural society.

"It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own"

Author: Richard White
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 668
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780806125671

Argues that each succeeding group to occupy the American West exploited the land and native inhabitants to reap short term financial benefits

A Companion to the American West

A Companion to the American West
Author: William Deverell
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1405138483

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

Interpreter of Maladies

Interpreter of Maladies
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 195
Release: 1999
Genre: East Indian Americans
ISBN: 039592720X

In nine stories imbued with the sensual details of Indian culture, Lahiri charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.

The American West: A New Interpretive History

The American West: A New Interpretive History
Author: Robert V. Hine
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2017-08-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300185170

This survey of frontier history traces the story from the first Columbian contacts between Indians and Europeans to the modern multicultural encounters. It examines topics such as western landscapes, environmental movements, literature, arts and film.