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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Patricia Nelson Limerick |
| ISBN: | 0393023907 9780393023909 |
| OCLC Number: | 14586977 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | 396 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Part One: THE CONQUERORS -- Empire of Innocence -- Property Values -- Denial and Dependence -- Uncertain Enterprises -- The Meeting Ground of Past and Present -- Part two: THE CONQUERORS MEET THEIR MATCH -- The Persistence of Natives -- America the Borderland -- Racialism on the Run -- Mankind the Manager -- The Burdens of Western American History. |
| Responsibility: | Patricia Nelson Limerick. |
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Abstract:
This study corrects the misperceptions of the American West based on representations from novels and films and shows how western history was--and is--a vast economic event.
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