It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own

by White, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780806125671
• ISBN10: 0806125675
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

A centerpiece of the New History of the American West, this book embodies the theme that, as succeeding groups have occupied the American West and shaped the land, they have done so with put regard for present inhabitants. Like the cowboys herding the doggies, they have cared little about the cost their activities imposed on others; what has mattered is the immediate benefit they derived from their transformation of the land.

Table of Contents

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Tables
Acknowledgments
The Origins of the West	p. 1
The Seeds of the West	p. 5
Empires and Indians	p. 27
The Federal Government and the Nineteenth-Century West	p. 55
The Conquest of the West	p. 61
The Federal Government and the Indians	p. 85
Exploring the Land	p. 119
Distributing the Land	p. 137
Territorial Government	p. 155
Transformation and Development	p. 179
The Transformation of Western Society: Migration	p. 183
Transforming the Land	p. 212
The West and the World Economy	p. 236
The Economic Structure of the West	p. 270
New Communities and the Western Social Order	p. 298
Social Conflict	p. 328
Western Politics	p. 353
The Bureaucratic Revolution in the West	p. 389
At the Centers of Power	p. 395
On the Peripheries of Power	p. 431
Transforming the West	p. 459
The Depression	p. 463
War II and Its Aftermath: Reshaping the West	p. 496
The Modern West	p. 535
Rise of the Metropolitan West	p. 541
The West and the Nation	p. 574
The Imagined West	p. 613
Epilogue	p. 633
Index	p. 636
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