The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West

The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
Author: Patricia Nelson Limerick
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2011-02-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0393078809

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"Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard White The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality; in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here she interprets the stories and the characters in a new way: the trappers, traders, Indians, farmers, oilmen, cowboys, and sheriffs of the Old West "meant business" in more ways than one, and their descendents mean business today.


Legacy of Conquest
Language: en
Pages: 404
Authors: Patricia Limerick
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987-12 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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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 eco
The Legacy of Conquest
Language: en
Pages: 396
Authors: Patricia Nelson Limerick
Categories: West (U.S.)
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987 - Publisher: W. W. Norton

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"Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." Richard White The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a
Something in the Soil
Language: en
Pages: 390
Authors: Patricia Nelson Limerick
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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"Patricia Limerick is simply one of the best writers alive."--Garry Wills
Colony and Empire
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: William G. Robbins
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher:

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"A forceful analysis of the role of capitalism in the history of the American West. This is an important contribution to the new western history that should be
Distant Horizon
Language: en
Pages: 492
Authors: Gary Noy
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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The West has figured in the American imagination under many guises: as the last best place on earth, a refuge, an escape, a land of opportunity, but also as a p