A Sense Of The American West

Author : William Riebsame Travis
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781597266147

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New Geographies of the American West by William Riebsame Travis Pdf

Reconciling explosive growth with often majestic landscape defines New Geographies of the American West. Geographer William Travis examines contemporary land use changes and development patterns from the Mississippi to the Pacific, and assesses the ecological and social outcomes of Western development. Unlike previous "boom" periods dependent on oil or gold, the modern population explosion in the West reflects a sustained passion for living in this specific landscape. But the encroaching exurbs, ranchettes, and ski resorts are slicing away at the very environment that Westerners cherish. Efforts to manage growth in the West are usually stymied at the state and local levels. Is it possible to improve development patterns within the West's traditional anti-planning, pro-growth milieu, or is a new model needed? Can the region develop sustainably, protecting and managing its defining wildness, while benefiting from it, too? Travis takes up the challenge , suggesting that functional and attractive settlement can be embedded in preserved lands, working landscapes, and healthy ecologies.

Author : James Earl Sherow
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0826319130

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A Sense of the American West by James Earl Sherow Pdf

An anthology of diverse approaches and issues in the environmental history of the American West.

Author : Josh Hayes,Gerard Kuperus,Brian Treanor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000092417

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Philosophy in the American West by Josh Hayes,Gerard Kuperus,Brian Treanor Pdf

Philosophy in the American West explores the physical, ecological, cultural, and narrative environments associated with the western United States, reflecting on the relationship between people and the places that sustain them. The American West has long been recognized as having significance. From Crèvecoeur’s early observations in Letters from an American Farmer (1782), to Thoreau’s reflections in Walden (1854), to twentieth-century thoughts on the legacy of a vanishing frontier, "the West" has played a pivotal role in the American narrative and in the American sense of self. But while the nature of "westernness" has been touched on by historians, sociologists, and, especially, novelists and poets, this collection represents the first attempt to think philosophically about the nature of "the West" and its influence on us. The contributors take up thinkers that have been associated with Continental Philosophy and pair them with writers, poets, and artists of "the West". And while this collection seeks to loosen the cords that tie philosophy to Europe, the traditions of "continental" philosophy—phenomenology, hermeneutics, deconstruction, and others—offer deep resources for thinking through the particularity of place. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Philosophy, as well as those working in Ecocriticism and the Environmental Humanities more broadly.

Author : Brenden W. Rensink
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781496230430

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The North American West in the Twenty-First Century by Brenden W. Rensink Pdf

This edited volume takes stories from the "modern West" of the late twentieth century and carefully pulls them toward the present--explicitly tracing continuity with and unexpected divergence from trajectories established in the 1980s and 1990s.

Author : Susan Goodman,Carl Dawson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0520942264

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Mary Austin and the American West by Susan Goodman,Carl Dawson Pdf

Mary Austin (1868-1934)—eccentric, independent, and unstoppable—was twenty years old when her mother moved the family west. Austin's first look at her new home, glimpsed from California's Tejon Pass, reset the course of her life, "changed her horizons and marked the beginning of her understanding, not only about who she was, but where she needed to be." At a time when Frederick Jackson Turner had announced the closing of the frontier, Mary Austin became the voice of the American West. In 1903, she published her first book, The Land of Little Rain, a wholly original look at the West's desert and its ethnically diverse peoples. Defined in a sense by the places she lived, Austin also defined the places themselves, whether Bishop, in the Sierra Nevada, Carmel, with its itinerant community of western writers, or Santa Fe, where she lived the last ten years of her life. By the time of her death in 1934, Austin had published over thirty books and counted as friends the leading literary and artistic lights of her day. In this rich new biography, Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson explore Austin's life and achievement with unprecedented resonance, depth, and understanding. By focusing on one extraordinary woman's life, Mary Austin and the American West tells the larger story of the emerging importance of California and the Southwest to the American consciousness.

Author : Ellen Wohl
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520257030

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Of Rock and Rivers by Ellen Wohl Pdf

This deeply personal collection of essays paints a progressive view of the American West as seen by a geologist. The author traces her twenty years of living and conducting research in the natural landscapes of the West as she investigates the conflict between environmental history and widely held romanticized views of the region.

Author : Gordon Morris Bakken
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN : 0815334621

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The American West by Gordon Morris Bakken Pdf

Author : John M. Findlay
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496234773

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The Mobilized American West, 1940-2000 by John M. Findlay Pdf

John M. Findlay presents a historical overview of the American West between 1940 and 2000, arguing that during the years of U.S. mobilization for World War II and the Cold War, the West remained a significant and distinctive region.

Author : Stephen McVeigh
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748629442

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American Western by Stephen McVeigh Pdf

This wide-ranging book illuminates the importance of the Western in American history. It explores the interconnections between the Western in both literature and film and the United States in the 20th century.Structured chronologically, the book traces the evolution of the Western as a uniquely American form. The author argues that America's frontier past was quickly transformed into a set of symbols and myths, an American meta-narrative that came to underpin much of the 'American century'. He details how and why this process occurred, the form and function of Western myths and symbols, the evolution of this mythology, and its subversions and reconstructions throughout 20th-century American history.The book engages with the full range of historical, literary and cinematic perspectives and texts, from the founding Western histories of Theodore Roosevelt and Frederick Jackson Turner to the New Western history of Patricia Nelson Limerick and Richard White.

Author : J. Edward De Steiguer
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780816528264

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Wild Horses of the West by J. Edward De Steiguer Pdf

When the Spanish explorers brought horses to North America, the horses were, in a sense, returning home. Beginning with their origins fifty million years ago, the wild horse has been traced from North America through Asia to the plains of SpainÕs Andalusia and then back across the Atlantic to the ranges of the American West. When given the chance, these horses simply took up residence in the landscape that their ancestors had roamed so long ago. In Wild Horses of the West, J. Edward de Steiguer provides an entertaining and well-researched look at one of the most controversial animal welfare issues of our timeÑthe protection of free-roaming horses on the WestÕs public lands. This is the first book in decades to include the entire story of these magnificent animals, from their evolution and biology to their historical integration into conquistador, Native American, and cowboy cultures. And the story isnÕt over. De Steiguer goes on to address the modern issuesÑ ecology, conservation, and land managementÑsurrounding wild horses in the West today. Featuring stunning color photographs of wild horses, this extremely thorough and engaging blend of history, science, and politics will appeal to students of the American West, conservation activists, and anyone interested in the beauty and power of these striking animals.

Author : Benjamin H. Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781851097685

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Making of the American West by Benjamin H. Johnson Pdf

A richly researched, evocative account of the individuals and institutions involved in the settling of the non-Indian West—and of the impact of the development of the West on the nation as a whole. Making of the American West surveys the experiences of major social groups in the lands from the Mississippi to the Pacific, from the United States' penetration of the region in the early 19th century to its incorporation into national political, economic, and cultural fabric by the early 20th century. This revealing volume offers fascinating portraits of the people and institutions that drove the Western conquest (traders and trappers, ranchers and settlers, corporations, the federal government), as well as of those who resisted conquest or hoped for the emergence of a different society (Indian peoples, Latinos, Asians, wage laborers). Throughout, expert contributors continually return to the growing myth of the West and the impact of its promise of freedom and opportunity on those who sought to "Americanize" it.

Author : Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000092837

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The New American West in Literature and the Arts by Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo Pdf

The story of the American West is that of a journey. It is the story of a movement, of a geographical and human transition, of the delineation of a route that would soon become a rooted myth. The story of the American West has similarly journeyed across boundaries, in a two-way movement, sometimes feeding the idea of that myth, sometimes challenging it. This collection of essays relates to the notion of the traveling essence of the myth of the American West from different geographical and disciplinary standpoints. The volume originates in Europe, in Spain, where the myth traveled, was received, assimilated, and re-presented. It intends to travel back to the West, in a two-way cross-cultural journey, which will hopefully contribute to the delineation of the New—always self-renewing—American West. It includes the work of authors of both sides of the Atlantic ocean who propose a cross-cultural, transdisciplinary dialogue upon the idea, the geography and the representation of the American West.

Author : Nicolas S. Witschi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444396584

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A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West by Nicolas S. Witschi Pdf

A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America's western states. Offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of cultural expressions originating in the west Focuses on the intersections, complexities, and challenges found within and between the different historical and cultural groups that define the west's various distinctive regions Addresses traditionally familiar icons and ideas about the west (such as cowboys, wide-open spaces, and violence) and their intersections with urbanization and other regional complexities Features essays written by many of the leading scholars in western American cultural studies

Author : Brandi Denison
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803276741

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Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879–2009 by Brandi Denison Pdf

"A regional history of contact between Utes and white settlers, from 1879-2009, that examines the production of an idealized American religion in the American West through the intersection of religion, land, and cultural memory."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Kathryn Hovey
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0826334466

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Anarchy and Community in the New American West by Kathryn Hovey Pdf

The story of Madrid, New Mexico's, multiple identities and struggles for survival as a tourist attraction in the last three decades.