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Author : Patricia Nelson Limerick,Clyde A. Milner,Charles E. Rankin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002042810
Reexamination of the role of the West in U.S. history and of the field of western history itself told by ten historians.
Author : Forrest Glen Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0816519153
Seven scholars examine the work of the "new western" historians, who retell the story of the American West from the point of view of the oppressed and colonized, and discuss ways to expand the horizons of this new approach to include fiction, literature by women, racial categories, writers who presaged the movement, popular culture, and natural history.
Author : Forrest Glen Robinson
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816519161
Seven scholars examine the work of the "new western" historians, who retell the story of the American West from the point of view of the oppressed and colonized, and discuss ways to expand the horizons of this new approach to include fiction, literature by women, racial categories, writers who presaged the movement, popular culture, and natural history.
Author : Patricia Nelson Limerick
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393078800
"Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard White The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality; in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here she interprets the stories and the characters in a new way: the trappers, traders, Indians, farmers, oilmen, cowboys, and sheriffs of the Old West "meant business" in more ways than one, and their descendents mean business today.
Author : Sarah Carter,Alvin Finkel,Peter Fortna
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Autochtones
ISBN : 9781897425800
The central aim of "The West and Beyond" is to evaluate and appraise the state of Western Canadian history, to acknowledge and assess the contributions of historians of the past and present, to showcase the research interests of a new generation of scholars, to chart new directions for the future, and stimulate further interrogations of our past.-- The book is broken into five sections and contains articles from both established and new scholars that broadly reflect findings of the conference "The West and Beyond:-- Historians Past, Present and Future" held in Edmonton, Alberta in the summer of 2008.-- The editors hope the collection will encourage dialogue among generations of historians of the West and among practitioners of diverse approaches to the past.-- The collection also reflects a broad range of disciplinary and professional interests suggesting a number of different ways to understand the West.
Author : Peter C. Rollins,John E. O'Connor
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813171807
American historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner have argued that the West has been the region that most clearly defines American democracy and the national ethos. Throughout the twentieth century, the "frontier thesis" influenced film and television producers who used the West as a backdrop for an array of dramatic explorations of America's history and the evolution of its culture and values. The common themes found in Westerns distinguish the genre as a quintessentially American form of dramatic art. In Hollywood's West, Peter C. Rollins, John E. O'Connor, and the nation's leading film scholars analyze popular conceptions of the frontier as a fundamental element of American history and culture. This volume examines classic Western films and programs that span nearly a century, from Cimarron (1931) to Turner Network Television's recent made-for-TV movies. Many of the films discussed here are considered among the greatest cinematic landmarks of all time. The essays highlight the ways in which Westerns have both shaped and reflected the dominant social and political concerns of their respective eras. While Cimarron challenged audiences with an innovative, complex narrative, other Westerns of the early sound era such as The Great Meadow (1931) frequently presented nostalgic visions of a simpler frontier era as a temporary diversion from the hardships of the Great Depression. Westerns of the 1950s reveal the profound uncertainty cast by the cold war, whereas later Westerns display heightened violence and cynicism, products of a society marred by wars, assassinations, riots, and political scandals. The volume concludes with a comprehensive filmography and an informative bibliography of scholarly writings on the Western genre. This collection will prove useful to film scholars, historians, and both devoted and casual fans of the Western genre. Hollywood's West makes a significant contribution to the understanding of both the historic American frontier and its innumerable popular representations.
Author : Richard W. Etulain
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0816516839
Describes changes in how the West has been seen, from a male-dominated frontier, to a region with a powerful sense of place, to a modern center of both genders, ethnic groups, and environmental interests
Author : Frederick Jackson Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1614275726
2014 Reprint of 1894 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. The "Frontier Thesis" or "Turner Thesis," is the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1894 that American democracy was formed by the American Frontier. He stressed the process-the moving frontier line-and the impact it had on pioneers going through the process. He also stressed consequences of a ostensibly limitless frontier and that American democracy and egalitarianism were the principle results. In Turner's thesis the American frontier established liberty by releasing Americans from European mindsets and eroding old, dysfunctional customs. The frontier had no need for standing armies, established churches, aristocrats or nobles, nor for landed gentry who controlled most of the land and charged heavy rents. Frontier land was free for the taking. Turner first announced his thesis in a paper entitled "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," delivered to the American Historical Association in 1893 in Chicago. He won very wide acclaim among historians and intellectuals. Turner's emphasis on the importance of the frontier in shaping American character influenced the interpretation found in thousands of scholarly histories. By the time Turner died in 1932, 60% of the leading history departments in the U.S. were teaching courses in frontier history along Turnerian lines.
Author : Patricia Nelson Limerick
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0393321029
"Patricia Limerick is simply one of the best writers alive."--Garry Wills
Author : Wilbur R. Jacobs
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700631582
Should Frederick Jackson Turner be revered as “the father of western history” or reviled as a misguided advocate of a frontier spirit and rugged individualism that denied cultural diversity and produced widespread environmental destruction? Dividing into campus over the issue, western historians place him everywhere from one end of the spectrum to the other. In this provocative new interpretation of Turner’s life, work, and legacy, Wilbur Jacobs challenges the views of traditionalists and views of traditionalists and revisionists alike. From extensive research in the Turner archives, a nationwide search for additional Turner correspondence, interviews with historians, and a lifetime of collecting Turner anecdotes, Jacobs chronicles Turner’s professional (and sometimes personal) bequest through 100 years of Western historical writing. Jacobs adds his voice to the heated ebate by mixing a sophisticated critique of historical writing with stories of professional intrigue—the fights to protect Turner’s legacy, limit access to the Turner archives, and control the Western history Association. He traces the intellectual development of Turner’s frontier theory; explores the intense rivalry between two major Turnerian disciples, Frederick Merk and Ray A. Billington, as they vied for control of Turner’s legacy; and analyzes the efforts of new western historians who seek to erase Turner and Billington from the landscape of what is now called the history of the “West.” Balanced in his assessments, Jacobs treats Turner and his disciples with a sympathetic yet critical eye. He points out Turner’s limitations in dealing with environmental, racial-ethnic, and urban themes as well as the shortcomings of Merk, Billington, and other Turnerians. At the same time, however, Jacobs illuminates the major contributions of their work. Despite their intense differences, Jacobs argues, all western historians remain inextricably linked by Turner’s legacy.
Author : Stephen Bly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1492882399
BOOK ONE of the CODE OF THE WEST seriesStaying alive in the Old West requires three things: a fast horse, a quick hand, and enough smarts to know when to get out of town.Pepper Paige is sick of the fighting and emptiness that surround her as a dance-hall girl. And tired of fearing Jordan Beckett, a violent patron who has turned his attentions on her. Pepper gets her chance to escape, assuming a stranger's identity . . . and that woman's fiance out west. Little does she know, that man's been killed by Indians. Instead, a prison escapee named Tap Andrews is passing himself off as the rancher.What happens when the pair meet? And who will be left standing when Beckett tracks down Pepper, only to find a tough young cowboy in his way?FOR MORE STEPHEN BLY BOOKS, AND OTHER AWARD-WINNING WESTERN WRITERS, GO TO http://dustytrailbooks.com/
Author : Brenden W. Rensink
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781496230430
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 : Donald Worster
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195086713
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.
Author : Arthur Herman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780684827919
Enth.: "Historical and Cultural Pessimism. Jacob Burckhardt and Friedrich Nietzsche" (S. 76-108).
Author : Frederick Turner,John Mack Faragher
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0300075936
In 1893 a young Frederick Jackson Turner stood before the American Historical Association and delivered his famous frontier thesis. To a less than enthusiastic audience, he argued that "the existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward explain American development"; that this frontier accounted for American democracy and character; and that the frontier had closed forever with uncertain consequences for the American future. Despite the indifference of Turner's first audience, his essay would soon prove to be the single most influential piece of writing on American history, with extraordinary impact both in intellectual circles and in popular literature. Within a few years his views had become the dominant interpretation of the American past. A collection of his essays won the Pulitzer Prize, and for almost half a century, Turner's thesis was the most familiar model taught in schools, extolled by politicians, and screened in fictional form at local movie theaters each Saturday afternoon. Now, a hundred years after Turner's famous address, award-winning biographer John Mack Faragher collects and introduces the pioneer historian's ten most significant essays. Remarkable for their truly modern sense that a debate about the past is simultaneously a debate about the present, these essays remain stimulating reading, both as a road map to the early-twentieth-century American mind and as a model of committed scholarship. Faragher introduces us to Turner's work with a look at his role as a public intellectual and his effect on Americans' understanding of their national character. In the afterword, Faragher turns to the recent heated debate over Turner's legacy. Western history has reemerged in the news as historians argue over Turner's place in our current mind-set. In a world of dizzying intellectual change, it may come as something of a surprise that historians have taken so long to overturn the interpretation of a century-old conference paper. But while some claim that Turner's vision of the American West as a great egalitarian land of opportunity was long ago dismissed, others, in the words of historian Donald Worster, maintain that Turner still "presides over western history like a Holy Ghost.". Against this backdrop, Faragher looks at what the concept of the West means to us today and provides a reader's guide to the provocative new literature of the American frontier. Rereading these essays in the fresh light of Faragher's analysis brings new appreciation for the richness of Turner's work and an understanding of contemporary historians' admiration for Turner's commitment to the study of what it has meant to be American.