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Zusatztext "Researchers and doctoral students in American Studies will find many well articulated exposés! although mostly factual." - Yves Laberge! University of Ottawa Informationen zum Autor Gordon Morris Bakken is Professor of History at California State University, Fullerton. He is the author of many books, his most recent being Invitation to an Execution: A History of the Death Penalty in the United States. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays that deals with the world of the American West, and conveys the distinctiveness of this diverse region. It incorporates the research in the field to take the history of the American West out of its timeworn 'Cowboys and Indians' stereotype right up to the discussions of water rights and the presence of the defense industry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1 -The Physical Geography of the West by Robert Spude Chapter 2 -The Flora and the Fauna by Kurt Russo Chapter 3 - The Native West before 1700 by Gregory E. Smoak Chapter 4 - Hosts and Horses: Envirocultural Effects of Contact in the Amerindian West by K. D. Motes Chapter 5 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition by Robert Carriker Chapter 6 - Continued Exploration of the American West: The Fur Trade, Map Makers, Path Markers by William R. Swagerty Chapter 7 - The "Earlier, wilder image": Early artists of the American West by Elizabeth Kuebler-Wolf Chapter 8 -The Borderlands of the United States West by Sheila McManus Chapter 9 - California Transformed: Organizing a New Society, 1848-1869 by Peter Blodgett Chapter 10 - The Urbanization of the American West: The Processes and People in the Rise of Instant Cities and Their Evolution into the Twenty-First Century by Brent M. Rogers Chapter 11 -The Hydraulic West – The History of Irrigation by Charles R. Porter Chapter 12 - Leisure in the West by Randal Fulkerson Chapter 13 - Learning in the West: Western Women and the Culture of Education by Andrea G. Radke-Moss Chapter 14 - Defense Industries by Susan Tschabrun Chapter 15 - The Rise of Western Women to National Stature in the Early Twentieth Century by Shannon D. Smith Chapter 16 -American Politics Move West by Gordon Morris Bakken Chapter 17 - Government and Law in the American West by Aaron Wilson Chapter 18 - Region of Extremes and Contrast by Alicia Dewey Chapter 19 - American Indians in the Twentieth Century by Lisa E. Emmerich Chapter 20 - Leadership or Dominance: The Role of the Western U.S. Economy in the World by Neil Greenwood ...
