Power and Promise The Changing American West

by Anderson, Gary C.; Chamberlain, Kathleen P.

• ISBN13: 9780321080622
• ISBN10: 0321080629
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-15
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

The Changing Westblends social, political, intellectual and environmental history to offer an in-depth study of this often mythic region and its peoples, from pre-Columbian times to the 21 st century. User-friendly, streamlined and attentive to the most recent scholarship, this comprehensive history of the American West takes a new approach goes beyond the Turner thesis of the American Frontier

Table of Contents

The First Westerners: The Native Americans

The European Invasion of the West 1519-1800

Americans and the Early Development of the West

The Western Pioneer and the Early American Occupation of the West

The War For the West: The Civil and Indian Wars

The Post-War West: Railroads and Opportunity

The Search for Law and Political Order in the West, 1850-1900

The Social and Multi-cultural Context of a Changing American West

The Western Progressives, 1890-1929

The West of the 1930s: Depression and New Deal

A National Trend-Setter: The Modern West, 1940-1980

An Ever-Changing American West: 1980 and into the Twenty-First Century

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