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"The American West and the World provides a synthetic introduction to the transnational history of the American West. Drawing from the insights of recent scholarship, Janne Lahti recenters the history of the U.S. West in the global contexts of empires and settler colonialism, discussing exploration, expansion, migration,violence, intimacies, and ideas. Lahti discusses both established subfields of Western scholarship, such as borderlands studies and transnational histories of empire, as well as relatively unexplored connections between the West and geographically nonadjacent spaces. Lucid and incisive, The American West and the World firmly situates the historical West in its proper global context"--
Borderlands --- West (U.S.) --- Historiography. --- Colonization. --- Border-lands --- Border regions --- Frontiers --- Boundaries --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States
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This is a succinct survey of the numerous contributions to the history of the American west. In the past twenty-five years historians have created a 'New Western History', which has aimed to rewrite the 'Old Western History' created around the famous Turner thesis on the significance of the American Frontier. Focusing on five main themes, this study examines and discusses the dynamics and progress of recent scholarship. Consideration is given to issues of land use, the environment, race, ethnicity, gender, business and the development of communities. Synthesising prolific research, the book offers a clear and up-to-date review for all students of American history. A full bibliography is provided for more extended study.
West (U.S.) --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- History. --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Arts and Humanities --- History
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Why have Americans expressed concern about immigration at some times but not at others? In pursuit of an answer, this book examines America's first nativist movement, which responded to the rapid influx of 4.2 million immigrants between 1840 and 1860 and culminated in the dramatic rise of the National American Party. As previous studies have focused on the coasts, historians have not yet completely explained why westerners joined the ranks of the National American, or "Know Nothing," Party or why the nation's bloodiest anti-immigrant riots erupted in western cities--namely Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville, and St. Louis. In focusing on the antebellum West, Inventing America's First Immigration Crisis illuminates the cultural, economic, and political issues that originally motivated American nativism and explains how it ultimately shaped the political relationship between church and state. In six detailed chapters, Ritter explains how unprecedented immigration from Europe and rapid westward expansion reignited fears of Catholicism as a corrosive force. He presents new research on the inner sanctums of the secretive Order of Know-Nothings and provides original data on immigration, crime, and poverty in the urban West. Ritter argues that the country's first bout of political nativism actually renewed Americans' commitment to church-state separation. Native-born Americans compelled Catholics and immigrants, who might have otherwise shared an affinity for monarchism, to accept American-style democracy. Catholics and immigrants forced Americans to adopt a more inclusive definition of religious freedom. This study offers valuable insight into the history of nativism in U.S. politics and sheds light on present-day concerns about immigration, particularly the role of anti-Islamic appeals in recent elections.
Religion --- Immigrants --- Nativism --- Anti-Catholicism --- History --- Political aspects --- Religious aspects --- Antipapism --- Prejudices --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Catholics --- Social discrimination & equal treatment; History of the Americas; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church --- 1800-1899 --- West United States. --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, West --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States
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Hunting --- Fishing --- Outdoor life --- Fishing. --- Hunting. --- Outdoor life. --- United States, West. --- Rural life --- Chase, The --- Field sports --- Gunning --- Harvesting (Hunting) --- Hunting for sport --- Hunting, Primitive --- Recreational hunting --- Sport hunting --- Angling --- Recreational fishing --- Sport fishing --- Sportfishing --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West --- United States, Western --- Western States --- Western United States --- Chasse --- Plein air --- Pêche sportive --- Manners and customs --- Camping --- Sports --- Aquatic sports --- Wildlife-related recreation --- Fishes --- Safaris --- Trapping --- West United States. --- United States, West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- Western States (U.S.)
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Natural history --- Natuurlijke historie. --- JEX6 --- History, Natural --- Natural science --- Physiophilosophy --- Biology --- Science --- Natural history. --- Western Canada. --- Mexico. --- West United States. --- United States, West --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Anáhuac --- Estados Unidos Mexicanos --- Maxico --- Méjico --- Mekishiko --- Meḳsiḳe --- Meksiko --- Meksyk --- Messico --- Mexique --- República Mexicana --- Stany Zjednoczone Meksyku --- United Mexican States --- United States of Mexico --- Canada, Western --- Canada --- Canadian Northwest
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Forests and forestry --- Forests and forestry. --- United States, West. --- Forest land --- Forest lands --- Forest planting --- Forest production --- Forest sciences --- Forestation --- Forested lands --- Forestland --- Forestlands --- Forestry --- Forestry industry --- Forestry sciences --- Land, Forest --- Lands, Forest --- Silviculture --- Sylviculture --- Woodlands --- Woods (Forests) --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West --- United States, Western --- Western States --- Western United States --- Agriculture --- Natural resources --- Afforestation --- Arboriculture --- Logging --- Timber --- Tree crops --- Trees --- West United States. --- United States, West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- Western States (U.S.)
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A diverse group of writers and scholars follow the lead of noted folklorist Barre Toelken and consider, from the inside, the ways in which varied cultures in the American West understand and express their relations to the world around them. As Barre Toelken puts it in The Dynamics of Folklore, ""'Worldview' refers to the manner in which a culture sees and expresses its relation to the world around it."" In Worldviews and the American West, seventeen notable authors and scholars, employing diverse approaches and styles, apply Toelken's ideas about worldview to the American West.
Minorities --- Ethnophilosophy --- Folklore --- Group identity --- Social life and customs. --- West (U.S.) --- Ethnic relations. --- Civilization. --- In literature. --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Folk philosophy --- Indigenous peoples --- Philosophy, Primitive --- Primitive philosophy --- Ethnic minorities --- Foreign population --- Minority groups --- Philosophy --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Cognition and culture --- Ethnology --- Persons --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Discrimination --- Ethnic relations --- Majorities --- Plebiscite --- Race relations --- Segregation
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Transference of orientalist images and identities to the American landscape and its inhabitants, especially in the West-in other words, portrayal of the West as the "Orient"-has been a common aspect of American cultural history. Place names, such as the Jordan River or Pyramid Lake, offer notable examples, but the imagery and its varied meanings are more widespread and significant. Understanding that range and significance, especially to the western part of the continent, means coming to terms with the complicated, nuanced ideas of the Orient and of the North American continent that
Asian influences. --- Foreign public opinion, American. --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Annexations --- East and West. --- Orientalism --- History. --- West (U.S.) --- United States --- Asia --- Civilization. --- Civilization --- Territorial expansion. --- Civilization, Western --- Civilization, Oriental --- Occident and Orient --- Orient and Occident --- West and East --- Eastern question --- East and West --- Asian influences --- Oriental influences --- Western influences --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia
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"This volume considers the interconnection of racial oppression in the U.S. South and West, presenting thirteen case studies that explore the ways in which people have been caged and incarcerated, and what these practices tell us about state building, coercive legal powers, and national sovereignty. As these studies depict the institutional development and state scaffolding of overlapping carceral regimes, they also consider how prisoners and immigrants resisted such oppression and violence by drawing on the transnational politics of human rights and liberation, transcending the isolation of incarceration and the boundaries of domestic law"--
Imprisonment --- Race discrimination --- Detention of persons --- History --- States --- United States --- Southern States --- West (U.S.) --- Emigration and immigration --- Race relations --- History. --- Confinement --- Incarceration --- Corrections --- Punishment --- Prison-industrial complex --- Prisons --- Bias, Racial --- Discrimination, Racial --- Race bias --- Racial bias --- Racial discrimination --- Discrimination --- Criminal procedure --- Law and legislation --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- School-to-prison pipeline
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Biology --- Natural history --- Sciences naturelles --- Periodicals. --- Périodiques --- Natural history. --- Canada, Western. --- Mexico. --- United States, West. --- Monographic series --- Life Sciences --- Western Canada. --- West United States. --- History, Natural --- Natural science --- Physiophilosophy --- Science --- Anáhuac --- Estados Unidos Mexicanos --- Maxico --- Méjico --- Mekishiko --- Meḳsiḳe --- Meksiko --- Meksyk --- Messico --- Mexique --- República Mexicana --- Stany Zjednoczone Meksyku --- United Mexican States --- United States of Mexico --- United States, West --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Canada --- Canada, Western --- Canadian Northwest --- Biology. --- Canada. --- United States.
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