Global West, American frontier : travel, empire, and exceptionalism from manifest destiny to the Great Depression /

Global West, American frontier : travel, empire, and exceptionalism from manifest destiny to the Great Depression /

This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both European and American travelers' accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville's Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon's Bl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wrobel, David M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013.
Series:Calvin P. Horn lectures in Western history and culture.
Subjects:
Travel writing > Historiography.
HISTORY / Social History.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
West (U.S.) > Description and travel > History.
West (U.S.) > Historiography.
West (U.S.) > Public opinion.
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