The American West and Its Interpreters
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The American West and Its Interpreters

Essays on Literary History and Historiography

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The American West and Its Interpreters

Essays on Literary History and Historiography

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Distinguished historian Richard W. Etulain brings together a generous selection of essays from his sixty-year career as a specialist on the US West in this essential volume. Each essay provides an invaluable overview of the rise of western literary history and historiography—including insightful evaluations of individual historians—revealing summaries of regional literature and discussions of western stories yet to be told. Together these writings furnish readers with useful considerations of important subjects about the American West. All those interested in the American West and its interpreters will find these illuminative moments of literary history and historiography especially appealing.

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Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9780826364463
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1. Transitions in Western Historiography
  8. Chapter 2. The American Literary West and Its Interpreters The Rise of a New Historiography
  9. Chapter 3. Shifting Interpretations of Western American Cultural History
  10. Chapter 4. The Twentieth-Century American West A New Historiographical Frontier
  11. Chapter 5. Research Opportunities in Twentieth-Century Western Cultural History
  12. Chapter 6. After Turner The Western Historiography of Frederic Logan Paxson
  13. Chapter 7. Earl Pomeroy Reorienting Western History
  14. Chapter 8. Inventing the Pacific Northwest Novelists and the Region’s History
  15. Chapter 9. Western Stories for the Next Generation
  16. Chapter 10. Beyond Conflict, Toward Complexity New Views of the American West
  17. Chapter 11. Research Opportunities in Western History
  18. Poll The Most Influential Western Historians
  19. Notes
  20. American West Historiography Books and Essays
  21. Desired Permission to Reprint Statements from Publishers
  22. Index