Power And Place In The North American West

Author : Richard White,John M. Findlay
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295802206

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Power and Place in the North American West by Richard White,John M. Findlay Pdf

Western historians continue to seek new ways of understanding the particular mixture of physical territory, human actions, outside influences, and unique expectations that has made the North American West what it is today. This collection of twelve essays tackles the subject of power and place from several angles�Indians and non-Indians, race and gender, environment and economy�to gain insight into major forces at work during two centuries of western history. The essays, related to one another by their concern with how power is exercised in, over, and by western places, cover a wide range of times and topics, from 18th-century Spanish New Mexico to 19th-century British Columbia to 20th-century Sun Valley and Los Angeles. They encompass analyses of the concept and rhetoric of race, theoretical speculations on gender and powerlessness, and insights on the causes of current environmental crises.

Author : Brenden W. Rensink
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Anne Farrar Hyde
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803224056

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Empires, Nations, and Families by Anne Farrar Hyde Pdf

To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little difference: the United States was just another imperial overlord to be assessed and manipulated. This was not, as Empires, Nations, and Families makes clear, virgin wilderness discovered by virtuous Anglo entrepreneurs. Rather, the United States was a newcomer in a place already complicated by vying empires. This book documents the broad family associations that crossed national and ethnic lines and that, along with the river systems of the trans-Mississippi West, formed the basis for a global trade in furs that had operated for hundreds of years before the land became part of the United States. ø Empires, Nations, and Families shows how the world of river and maritime trade effectively shifted political power away from military and diplomatic circles into the hands of local people. Tracing family stories from the Canadian North to the Spanish and Mexican borderlands and from the Pacific Coast to the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, Anne F. Hyde?s narrative moves from the earliest years of the Indian trade to the Mexican War and the gold rush era. Her work reveals how, in the 1850s, immigrants to these newest regions of the United States violently wrested control from Native and other powers, and how conquest and competing demands for land and resources brought about a volatile frontier culture?not at all the peace and prosperity that the new power had promised.

Author : Kenneth Bourne
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Britain and the Balance of Power in North America 1815-1908 by Kenneth Bourne Pdf

Author : Vine Deloria,Daniel R. Wildcat,Daniel Wildcat
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 155591859X

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Power and Place by Vine Deloria,Daniel R. Wildcat,Daniel Wildcat Pdf

Formal Indian education in America stretches all the way from reservation preschools to prestigious urban universities. "Power and Place" examines the issues facing Native American students as they progress through schools, colleges, and on into professions. This collection of 16 essays is at once philosophic, practical, and visionary.

Author : Lorrin L. Morrison,Carroll Spear Morrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UVA:X006141723

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Journal of the West by Lorrin L. Morrison,Carroll Spear Morrison Pdf

Author : Michael L. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X030112643

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Hunger for the Wild by Michael L. Johnson Pdf

Americans have had an enduring yet ambivalent obsession with the West as both a place and a state of mind. Michael L. Johnson considers how that obsession originated, how it has determined attitudes toward and activities in the West, and how it has changed over the centuries.

Author : Bruce W. Hevly,John M. Findlay
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295800622

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The Atomic West by Bruce W. Hevly,John M. Findlay Pdf

The Manhattan Project—the World War II race to produce an atomic bomb—transformed the entire country in myriad ways, but it did not affect each region equally. Acting on an enduring perception of the American West as an “empty” place, the U.S. government located a disproportionate number of nuclear facilities—particularly the ones most likely to spread pollution—in western states. The Manhattan Project manufactured plutonium at Hanford, Washington; designed and assembled bombs at Los Alamos, New Mexico; and detonated the world’s first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, New Mexico, on June 16, 1945. In the years that followed the war, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission selected additional western sites for its work. Many westerners initially welcomed the atom. Like federal officials, they, too, regarded their region as “empty,” or underdeveloped. Facilities to make, test, and base atomic weapons, sites to store nuclear waste, and even nuclear power plants were regarded as assets. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, regional attitudes began to change. At a variety of locales, ranging from Eskimo Alaska to Mormon Utah, westerners devoted themselves to resisting the atom and its effects on their environments and communities. Just as the atomic age had dawned in the American West, so its artificial sun began to set there. The Atomic West brings together contributions from several disciplines to explore the impact on the West of the development of atomic power from wartime secrecy and initial postwar enthusiasm to public doubts and protest in the 1970s and 1980s. An impressive example of the benefits of interdisciplinary studies on complex topics, The Atomic West advances our understanding of both regional history and the history of science, and does so with human communities as a significant focal point. The book will be of special interest to students and experts on the American West, environmental history, and the history of science and technology.

Author : Pekka Hamalainen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300215953

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Lakota America by Pekka Hamalainen Pdf

The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history Named One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2019 - Named One of the 10 Best History Books of 2019 by Smithsonian Magazine - Winner of the MPIBA Reading the West Book Award for narrative nonfiction "Turned many of the stories I thought I knew about our nation inside out."--Cornelia Channing, Paris Review, Favorite Books of 2019 "My favorite non-fiction book of this year."--Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg Opinion "A briliant, bold, gripping history."--Simon Sebag Montefiore, London Evening Standard, Best Books of 2019 "All nations deserve to have their stories told with this degree of attentiveness"--Parul Sehgal, New York Times This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley, America's great commercial artery, and then--in what was America's first sweeping westward expansion--as a horse people who ruled supreme on the vast high plains. The Lakotas are imprinted in American historical memory. Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull are iconic figures in the American imagination, but in this groundbreaking book they emerge as something different: the architects of Lakota America, an expansive and enduring Indigenous regime that commanded human fates in the North American interior for generations. Hämäläinen's deeply researched and engagingly written history places the Lakotas at the center of American history, and the results are revelatory.

Author : Susan Bernardin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351174268

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The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West by Susan Bernardin Pdf

This is the first major collection to remap the American West though the intersectional lens of gender and sexuality, especially in relation to race and Indigeneity. Organized through several interrelated key concepts, The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West addresses gender and sexuality from and across diverse and divergent methodologies. Comprising 34 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Companion is divided into four parts: Genealogies Bodies Movements Lands The volume features leading and newer scholars whose essays connect interdisciplinary fields including Indigenous Studies, Latinx and Asian American Studies, Western American Studies, and Queer, Feminist, and Gender Studies. Through innovative methodologies and reclaimed archives of knowledge, contributors model fresh frameworks for thinking about relations of power and place, gender and genre, settler colonization and decolonial resistance. Even as they reckon with the ongoing gendered and racialized violence at the core of the American West, contributors forge new lexicons for imagining alternative Western futures. This pathbreaking collection will be invaluable to scholars and students studying the origins, myths, histories, and legacies of the American West. This is a foundational collection that will become invaluable to scholars and students across a range of disciplines including Gender and Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Latinx Studies.

Author : National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Governmental investigations
ISBN : 0660292750

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Reclaiming Power and Place by National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Pdf

Author : Jason E. Pierce
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781607323969

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Making the White Man's West by Jason E. Pierce Pdf

The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In Making the White Man’s West, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space. Using a nuanced theory of historical “whiteness,” he examines why and how Anglo-Americans dominated the region for a 120-year period. In the early nineteenth century, critics like Zebulon Pike and Washington Irving viewed the West as a “dumping ground” for free blacks and Native Americans, a place where they could be segregated from the white communities east of the Mississippi River. But as immigrant populations and industrialization took hold in the East, white Americans began to view the West as a “refuge for real whites.” The West had the most diverse population in the nation with substantial numbers of American Indians, Hispanics, and Asians, but Anglo-Americans could control these mostly disenfranchised peoples and enjoy the privileges of power while celebrating their presence as providing a unique regional character. From this came the belief in a White Man’s West, a place ideally suited for “real” Americans in the face of changing world. The first comprehensive study to examine the construction of white racial identity in the West, Making the White Man’s West shows how these two visions of the West—as a racially diverse holding cell and a white refuge—shaped the history of the region and influenced a variety of contemporary social issues in the West today.

Author : Michelle Marie Steen-Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89086009057

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Change on a Northern Wisconsin Landscape by Michelle Marie Steen-Adams Pdf

Author : Ned BLACKHAWK
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674020993

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Violence over the Land by Ned BLACKHAWK Pdf

In this ambitious book that ranges across the Great Basin, Blackhawk places Native peoples at the center of a dynamic story as he chronicles two centuries of Indian and imperial history that shaped the American West. This book is a passionate reminder of the high costs that the making of American history occasioned for many indigenous peoples.

Author : Walter Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOMDLP:ajq7531:0001.001

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The Water-Power of Maine by Walter Wells Pdf