It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A New History of the American West
Autor Richard Whiteen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 1993
Drawing on a recent flowering of scholarship on the western environment, western gender relations, minority history, and urban and labor history, as well as on more traditional western sources, "It s Your Misfortune and None of My Own" is about the creation of the region rather than the vanishing of the frontier.
Richard White tells how the various parts of the Westits distinct environments, its metropolitan areas and vast hinterlands, the various ethnic and racial groups and classesare held together by a series of historical relationships that are developed over time. Widespread aridity and a common geographical location between the Missouri River and the Pacific Ocean would have provided but weak regional ties if other stronger relationships had not been created.
A common dependence on the deferral government and common roots in a largely extractive and service-based economy were formative influences on western states and territories. A dual labor system based on race and the existence of minority groups with distinctive legal status have helped further define the region. Patterns of political participation and political organization have proved enduring. Together, these relationships among people, and between people and place, have made the West a historical creation and a distinctive region.
From Europeans contact and subsequent Anglo-American conquest, through the civil-rights movement, the energy crisis, and the current reconstructing of the national and world economies, the West has remained a distinctive section in a much larger nation. In the American imagination the West still embodies possibilities inherent in the vastness and beauty of the place itself. But, Richard White explains, the possibilities many imagined for themselves have yielded to the possibilities seized by others. Many who thought themselves cowboys have in the end turned out to be dogies.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780806125671
ISBN-10: 0806125675
Pagini: 684
Dimensiuni: 176 x 254 x 35 mm
Greutate: 1.12 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN-10: 0806125675
Pagini: 684
Dimensiuni: 176 x 254 x 35 mm
Greutate: 1.12 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: University of Oklahoma Press