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A History of the American West

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English
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644

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"It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A History of the American West
1991, University of Oklahoma Press
hardcover in English

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Table of Contents

Figures
Page ix
Maps
Page xiii
Tables
Page xv
Acknowledgments
Page xvii
One. The Origins of the West
Page 1
1. The Seeds of the West
Page 5
2. Empires and Indians
Page 27
Two. The Federal Government and the Nineteenth-Century West
Page 55
3. The Conquest of the West
Page 61
4. The Federal Government and the Indians
Page 85
5. Exploring the Land
Page 119
6. Distributing the Land
Page 137
7. Territorial Government
Page 155
Three. Transformation and Development
Page 179
8. Te Transformation of Western Society: Migration
Page 183
9. Transforming the Land
Page 212
10. The West and the World Economy
Page 236
11. The Economic Structure of the West
Page 270
12. New Communities and the Western Social Order
Page 298
13. Social Conflict
Page 328
14. Western Politics
Page 353
Four. The Bureaucratic Revolution in the West
Page 389
15. At the Centers of Power
Page 395
16. On the Peripheries of Power
Page 431
Five. Transforming the West
Page 459
17. The Depression
Page 463
18. World War II and Its Aftermath: Reshaping the West
Page 496
Six. The Modern West
Page 535
19. Rise of the Metropolitan West
Page 541
20. The West and the Nation
Page 574
21. The Imagined West
Page 613
Epilogue
Page 633
Index
Page 636

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Norman, Oklahoma, USA

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hardcover
Pagination
xix, 644p
Number of pages
644
Weight
1360 grams

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OL25910198M
ISBN 10
0 8051 2366 4

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