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The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
Patricia Nelson Limerick
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Description for The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
Paperback. "Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard White Num Pages: 400 pages, 28 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 207 x 136 x 25. Weight in Grams: 472.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company New York
Number of pages
396
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393304978
SKU
V9780393304978
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About Patricia Nelson Limerick
Patricia Nelson Limerick is a professor of history and chair of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Reviews for The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
"In stripping the frontier of kitsch fantasy, Patricia Limerick has prised us away from an Ivy League model of a land of conquest and open opportunity. She offers instead the earthy, uncomfortable reality of a living west." The Guardian"