Creating the West
Subtitle: historical interpretations, 1890-1990
By: Gerald D. Nash.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Calvin P. Horn lectures in Western history and culture
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: West (U.S.) -- Historiography.
Description: This book appears at a time of radical reassessment of what settling the West has meant in American history. Amidst questions now being asked about violence and exploitation as leitmotifs in western history, it is more important than ever to understand historians and their biases. In this interpretive synthesis, a major historian argues that the visions of the West held by successive generations of historians were as important as the historical record in shaping their writings. - Jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-300) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The West as frontier, 1890-1945; title: The West as frontier, 1945-1990; title: The West as region, 1890-1990; title: The West as Utopia and myth, 1890-1990; title: Conclusion