Go east, young man
Subtitle: imagining the American West as the Orient
By: Richard Francaviglia
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Logan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780874218091; 9780874218107; 9780874218114
Subjects: American Foreign public opinion; East and West; Civilization; Territorial expansion; Orientalism; Asian influences; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the malleable landscape; title: The frontier West as the Orient (ca. 1810/1920); title: The American Zahara : into and beyond the Great Western Plains; title: In praise of pyramids : orientalizing the western interior; title: Chosen people, chosen land : Utah as the Holy Land; title: Finding new Eden : the American Southwest; title: The Far East in the Far West : Chinese and Japanese California; title: Syria on the Pacific : California as the Near/Middle East; title: To ancient East by ocean united : the Pacific Northwest as Asia; title: The modern West as the Orient (ca. 1920-2010); title: Lands of enchantment : the modern West as the Near/Middle East; title: Another place and another time : the modern West as the Far East/Asia; title: Conclusion full circle : imagining the Orient as the American West.