{"product_id":"the-american-west-9780631210863","title":"The American West","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracing events from the pre-history to the present day, this book offers a concise and accessible history of the American West.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the complex interactions between and among cultures in the American West\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eChronologically organized and informed by the latest scholarship\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eGrounded in attention to race, class, gender, and the environment, the text focuses on social, economic, and political forces that shaped the lived experiences of diverse westerners and influenced the patterns of western history.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With fresh insights and lively writing, this brief volume addresses major themes of culture, environment, politics, violence, and popular myth-making that shaped the American West from earliest times to the present day. By focusing on the West’s diverse peoples, women and men, Butler and Lansing underscore the fascinating complexity of this vast region that remains vital for an understanding of the United States and its history.” \u003ci\u003eClyde A. Milner, Arkansas State University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e“With admirable clarity, the authors analyze the West’s diverse regions, meanings, and populations across many centuries. This is a fine, insightful book.” \u003ci\u003eWilliam Deverell, University of Southern California\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“A wonderfully readable, thematically sophisticated survey of western history that draws heavily on the voluminous recent scholarship on the West to illuminate developments in race and gender relations, labor, the environment, economics and politics, and the region’s central place in the national imagination.” \u003ci\u003eDavid Wrobel, University of Nevada, Las Vegas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. \u003cp\u003e1. First Wests, Many Wests.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Inside Native Wests.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Enforcing an American West.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Imperial Wests.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. A Diverse, Urban, and Federal West.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Mythic West and Modern West.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuggested Readings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403420803415,"sku":"9780631210863","price":31.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780631210863.jpg?v=1730483420","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-american-west-9780631210863","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}