| Description |
1 online resource (330 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture
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Calvin P. Horn lectures in Western history and culture.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Roads Traveled. Beyond the Mythic West; Roads Traveled and Not Traveled -- Exceptionalism and Globalism: Revisiting the Traveler -- The World in the West, The West in the World: Travels in the Age of Empire -- "'No, Adventure is Not Dead'": Frontier Journeys in the Last Great Age of Exploration -- The End of the West?: Automotive Frontiers of the Early Twentieth Century -- Rediscovering the West: Regional Guides in the Depression Years -- Conclusion. Enduring Roads. |
| Summary |
Looking at both European and American travelers' accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville's Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counternarrative to the nation's romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to our history who deserve new attention. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-295) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Travel writing -- Historiography.
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Travel writing. |
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Historiography. |
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West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
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West (U.S.) -- Historiography.
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West (U.S.) -- Public opinion.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) |
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Public opinion. |
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Travel. |
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West United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wrobel, David M. Global West, American frontier. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013 9780826353702 (DLC) 2013017317 (OCoLC)840460688 |
| ISBN |
9780826353719 (electronic book) |
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0826353711 (electronic book) |
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129984300X (e-book) |
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9781299843004 (e-book) |
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9780826353702 (hardback) |
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0826353703 (hardback) |
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