Continental reckoning the American West in the age of expansion

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"Elliott West lays out the main events and developments that together describe and explain the emergence of the American West and situates the birth of the West in the broader narrative of American history between 1848 and 1880"-- Provided by publisher
Author(s): Elliott West
Document: Book · Paperback · CIRC [ 0 ]
Edition: 1st Edition
Published: 2023
Physical Description: xxxiii, 628 pages, 38 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Genre: History
Contents:

List of Illustrations List of Maps Series Editor’s Introduction, by Richard Etulain Prelude: 773,510,680 Acres Acknowledgments Part 1. Unsettling America 1. The Great Coincidence 2. Division and Multiplication 3. Letting Blood 4. The Horse and the Hammer 5. Conquest in Stutter-Step 6. Carnal Property 7. The Fluid West 8. Continental Reckoning 9. Civil War and the “Indian Problem” Part 2. Things Come Together 10. Iron Bands and Tongues of Fire 11. Connections Real and Imagined 12. Maps 13. The “Science of Man” and the American Sublime 14. The World’s Convention 15. Crew Cultures, Cribs and Schoolhouses, Women on the Fringe Part 3. Worked into Being 16. Cattle and the New America 17. Wind, Fever, and Indians Unhorsed 18. Breaking the Land 19. Domination and Extinction 20. When the West Turned Inside Out 21. Legal Wrestling, the Land Convulsed 22. The Final Undoing 23. Creating the West Notes Bibliography Index
Subjects:

1800-1899, Ecology, Economic history, États-Unis (Ouest) Conditions environnementales Histoire, États-Unis (Ouest) Histoire 1848-1860, États-Unis (Ouest) Histoire 1860-1890, États-Unis Expansion territoriale, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY), History,

 

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