The Legacy of Conquest
The Unbroken Past of the American West
Published on 7. February 2011
400 pages
978-0-393-07880-0 (ISBN)
Description
"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.More details
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01/2006
WW Norton & Co
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Patricia Nelson Limerick is a professor of history and chair of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Content
- Intro
- Also by Patricia Limerick
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Closing the Frontier and Opening Western History
- Part One THE CONQUERORS
- One Empire of Innocence
- Two Property Values
- Three Denial and Dependence
- Four Uncertain Enterprises
- Five The Meeting Ground of Past and Present
- Part Two THE CONQUERORS MEET THEIR MATCH
- Six The Persistence of Natives
- Seven America the Borderland
- Eight Racialism on the Run
- Nine Mankind the Manager
- Ten The Burdens of Western American History
- Notes
- Further Reading
