Legacy Of Conquest Pa

by Limerick,Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780393304978
• ISBN10: 0393304973
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780393078800
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality?n hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here she interprets the stories and the characters in a new way: the trappers, traders, Indians, farmers, oilmen, cowboys, and sheriffs of the Old West "meant business" in more ways than one, and their descendents mean business today.

Table of Contents

Acknowkledgments	p. 9
Introduction Closing the Frontier and Opening Western History	p. 17
The Conquerors	p. 33
Empire of Innocence	p. 35
Property Values	p. 55
Denial and Dependence	p. 78
Uncertain Enterprises	p. 97
The Meeting Ground Of Past and Present	p. 134
The Conquerors Meet Their Match	p. 177
The Persistence of Natives	p. 179
America the Borderland	p. 222
Racialism on the Run	p. 259
Mankind the Manager	p. 293
The Burdens of Western American History	p. 322
Notes	p. 351
Further Reading	p. 369
Index	p. 385
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