The West and the Word: Imagining, Formatting, and Ordering the American West in Nineteenth-Century Cultural Discourse 3110690241, 9783110690248

Women in the American West 9781598840513, 9781598840506

Twenty years after many Western historians first turned their attention toward women, Women in the American West synthes

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Cities and Nature in the American West 9780874178470, 9780874178241

In less than a century, the American West has transformed from a predominantly rural region to one where most people liv

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Ordering Women’s Lives: Penitentials and Nunnery Rules in the Early Medieval West 1859282385, 9781859282380

This book takes an innovative approach to the study of the penitentials and nunnery rules and the ways in which these te

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Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West 9780813946047

Most treatments of slavery, politics, and expansion in the early American republic focus narrowly on congressional debat

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Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union [1 ed.] 9780822973911, 9780822961253

This volume presents work from an international group of writers who explore conceptualizations of what defined "Ea

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West Indian in the West 9780814735992

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The American National State and the Early West 9781139572613, 9781107015289

This book challenges the widely held myth that the American national state was weak in the early days of the republic. W

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Imagining the Nation: Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent 9781503617636

Since the 1970's, when Maxine Hong Kingston began publishing her prize-winning books, we have seen an explosive gro

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Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (History of the American West) 2022013275, 9781496233585, 9781496234445, 1496233581

In Continental Reckoning renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the American West and its vita

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The American Far West in the Twentieth Century 9780300142679

An eminent scholar’s monumental and highly original history of the twentieth-century American West

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