Shaped By the West, Volume 1 - A History of North America to 1877

"William Deverell and Anne Hyde have a keen eye for evocative documents, and their introductions to both chapters and individual primary sources in these volumes are superb. There is simply no other document reader like Shaped by the West. It is an essential learning tool in courses that teach not only the content of western history but also the methods and practices of History as a discipline. I will assign these books as long as they remain in print. If and when they go out of print, I will have to retire."—Susan Lee Johnson, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“These wonderful volumes provide western voices for conversations of national importance in every era, from the origin stories of Native nations, through the arrival of European colonizers and the independence and growth of the United States, and up to the contemporary debates over civil rights, immigration restriction, and water conservation. Provocative primary sources are introduced with expert framing, matching nicely with what is traditionally covered in the chapters of a U.S. survey textbook. As history is increasingly globalized, this wider perspective on U.S. history is more attractive than ever.”—Adam Arenson, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Urban Studies Program, Manhattan College

"With a wide net and razor-sharp eyes, Hyde and Deverell gather together a terrific body of documents to help students grapple with the extraordinary complexity of Western history and with the joys of primary sources. Rather than one West, the documents reveal many Wests, always changing, always struggling over resources, always home to extraordinary and diverse cultures."—Gregory Downs, Professor of History, University of California, Davis

"It is hard to imagine more informed guides to the North American West than Deverell and Hyde. These judicious selections create a montage that reveals the history of the region in all its variety and complexity."—Richard White, Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, Stanford University

"Shaped by the West is the most complete and up-to-date primary source reader on the U.S. West. Deverell and Hyde introduce students to cutting-edge debates in the field and challenge them to connect regional and national histories. Thought-provoking reading questions, stunning images, and diverse primary sources make it an essential text for U.S. survey and western history courses."—Stacey L. Smith, Associate Professor of History, Oregon State University

"When selecting readings for our undergraduate students, Western historians are accustomed to making difficult and even painful choices that ultimately fail to satisfy our desires to link the contested Western past to the ongoing consequences of conquest in the Western present. The two-volume reader Anne Hyde and Bill Deverell have re-designed will ease these familiar frustrations with primary sources that compellingly answer and inspire students' provocative questions while sharing introductory essays and source annotations that offer nuance and context. As the authors note, "the West is a troubled place in early twenty-first-century America," and their textbooks equip all of us to address the origins and implications of those troubles squarely in our classrooms."—Katrina Jagodinsky, author of Legal Codes and Talking Trees: Indigenous Women’s Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854-1946 and Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of History at University of Nebraska Lincoln

List of contents

CHAPTER ONE: A Vast Native World  
 
1. ORIGIN STORIES FROM THE SOUTHWEST, PACIFIC COAST, AND GREAT LAKES
2. DEBATES OVER ANCESTRAL PUEBLOANS
3. MISSISSIPPIAN KINGDOMS 
4. VARIETIES OF NATIVE LIFE

CHAPTER TWO: First Encounters: Expectation and Cultural Difference
 
5. ENFORCING CHRISTIANITY ON ANOTHER WORLD
6. AN AZTEC VIEW OF EUROPEANS
7. QUESTIONING CONQUEST     
8. MYTHICAL WEALTH
9. THE MISSIONARY EFFORT IN NEW FRANCE
10. A MICMAC INDIAN QUESTIONS FRENCH HABITS 

CHAPTER THREE: Conquest and Revolt: 17th Century Wars on Two Frontiers
 
11. WAMPUM AND THE SIX NATIONS:
12. A WHITE WOMAN'S TALE OF CAPTIVITY
13. THE GREAT PUEBLO REVOLT         
14. AN INDIAN VIEW OF THE PUEBLO REVOLT        
 
CHAPTER FOUR: New Worlds For All: Conquest and Accommodation in the Eighteenth Century
 
15. EXPANDING COMMUNITIES          
16. THE WORLD OF THE BACKCOUNTRY      
17.  FAMILY DYNAMICS IN THE COLONIAL WORLD          
18. NEW WORLDS ON THE GREAT PLAINS

CHAPTER FIVE: From Middle Ground to Settler Frontier: Trade, Warfare, and Diplomacy

19. INDIANS AND ESCAPED SLAVES IN SOUTH CAROLINA
20. THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF THE FUR TRADE 
21. ECHOES OF THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR     
22. THE  INDIAN WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE
23. CULTURES  IN CONFLICT
 
CHAPTER SIX: An Era of Revolution: Many Peoples Demanding Change 

24. MISSION REVOLTS IN CALIFORNIA           
25. THE GREAT PEACE IN NEW MEXICO
26. A BIG NEW WORLD IN THE PACIFIC:
27. SUPPRESSING THE  WHISKEY REBELLION           
28. MISSIONS, FAMILY AUTHORITY AND NATIVE REBELLION
 
CHAPTER SEVEN: Creating the United States: Incorporating the First West  

29. BOUNDARIES FOR THE NEW NATION      
30.  IMAGINING THE ORDERLY REPUBLIC    
31. AN INDIAN VIEW OF LAND ISSUES
32. LOUISIANA: ENCOUNTERING ANOTHER WEST
33. TECUMSEH AND THE WESTERN INDIAN CONFEDERATION

CHAPTER EIGHT: Taking Indian Land: Removal and War in the Age of Jackson  
 
34. CHEROKEE EDUCATION AND ASSIMILATION   
35. THE PLACE  OF INDIANS  IN THE REPUBLIC
36.  INDIAN REMOVAL AND ITS HUMAN COST        
37. WAR IN THE OLD NORTHWEST 
 
CHAPTER NINE: Early Republicans: New Nations Test Their Borders  

38. MEXICAN REVOLUTIONS AND U.S. RESPONSES: 1810 REVOLUTION
39. LICENSE TO EXPAND
40. AMERICANS IN MEXICO: PROMISING ELLEGIANCE AND CREATING REVOLUTION IN TEXAS
41. AMERICAN IN MEXICO: REBELLIONS CRUSHED IN NEW MEXICO
42. MISSIONARIES ON THE BORDER: NARCISSA WHITMAN IN OREGON
 
CHAPTER TEN: Slavery, Bondage, and Labor in the West

43. WESTERN STATEHOOD AND THE SLAVERY CRISIS        
44.  INDIAN SLAVERY IN UTAH
45. CHEROKEE SLAVERY, 1830s
46. UNFREE LABOR ON THE SEAS

CHAPTER 11: The U.S. Mexico War

47.  OPPOSING VIEWS OF EXPANSION INTO MEXICO       
48.  CREATING A GLORIOUS WAR IN CALIFORNIA
49. THE COST OF CONQUEST: A NEW INDIAN WAR
50.  Disaster in New Mexico,

CHAPTER TWELVE: Westward Migration: Gold, Land, and Ambition

51. A GOLD RUSH FOR SOME
52. THE  MORMON TREK            
53. A SCOTSMAN’S ACCOUNT OF THE MALE WORLD OF GOLD RUSH CALIFORNIA
54. A FAMILY MEASURES THE  COST OF AMBITION            

CHAPTER THIRTEEN:  The 1850: A Sectional Crisis and a Crisis of Authority 
           
55. THE COMPROMISE OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
56.  GUERILLA WAR IN KANSAS FROM OPPOSING  PERSPECTIVES       
57. INVASIONS AND FILIBUSTERS IN CALIFORNIA AND NICARAGUA 58.  AN ACCOUNT OF THE MORMON WAR    
 
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Civil Wars Spread Over the West

59.  THE CONFEDERACY IMAGINES A WESTERN EMPIRE
60.  DAKOTA WAR IN 1862
61.  ACCOUNTS OF THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE, 1864

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: War and Reconstruction: Limiting the Empire for Liberty

62. THE GOVERNMENT CREATES THE WEST: THE HOMESEAD ACT AND THE PACIFIC RAILWAY ACTS, 1862           
63. INVENTING THE RESERVATION: ELDERS REMEMBER THE NAVAJOS’ LONG WALK, 1864-1868
64. EXODUSTERS: OKLAHOMA AND KANSAS
65. WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE, WYOMING, 1870
 
 

About the author

William Deverell is Professor of History at USC and is Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. He has published numerous books on the history of California and the American West, including Whitewashed Adobe, A Companion to Los Angeles, and A Companion to California History.
 
Anne Hyde is Professor of History at at the University of Oklahoma and is editor of the Western Historical Quarterly. She has published widely in the history of the American West. Her most recent book, Empires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800–1860, won the Bancroft Prize and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. 

Summary

America's expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy, politics, race, freedom, and property. This title re-writes the history of the United States through a western lens. It reflects the important role of the West in national narratives of American history, from the pre-Columbian era to 1877.

Product details

• Authors: William Deverell, William F. Deverell, William F. Hyde Deverell, William Hyde Deverell, Anne F. Hyde, Anne Farrar Hyde, Hyde Anne Farrar
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9780520290044
• ISBN: 978-0-520-29004-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Local History, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, US West, Western & Pacific Coast states, c 1765 to 1783 (American Revolutionary period), c 1783 to c 1800 (American Federalist era)