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American west
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ISBN: 1282088025 9786612088025 0748629734 9780748629732 9781282088023 0748622519 9780748622511 0748622527 9780748622528 Year: 2009 Publisher: Edinburgh

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The American West used to be a story of gunfights, glory, wagon trails, and linear progress. Historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner and Hollywood movies such as Stagecoach (1939) and Shane (1953) cast the trans-Mississippi region as a frontier of epic proportions where 'savagery' met 'civilization' and boys became men.


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The elusive West and the contest for empire, 1713-1763
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ISBN: 0807838942 1469600986 9781469600987 9780807838945 9780807833957 0807833959 9781469600864 1469600862 9798890878090 Year: 2011 Publisher: Chapel Hill

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This is a truly continental history in both its geographic and political scope. The book investigates 18th-century diplomacy involving North America and links geographic ignorance about the American West to Europeans' grand geopolitical designs.


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Frontier figures
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ISBN: 0520952022 1280116560 9786613520852 9780520952027 9781280116568 9780520267787 0520267788 9780520267763 0520267761 6613520853 Year: 2012 Publisher: Berkeley

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Frontier Figures is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animated American music. Examining the work of such composers as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Virgil Thomson, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Farwell, Beth E. Levy addresses questions of regionalism, race, and representation as well as changing relationships to the natural world to highlight the intersections between classical music and the diverse worlds of Indians, pioneers, and cowboys. Levy draws from an array of genres to show how different brands of western Americana were absorbed into American culture by way of sheet music, radio, lecture recitals, the concert hall, and film. Frontier Figures is a comprehensive illumination of what the West meant and still means to composers living and writing long after the close of the frontier.


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American boundaries
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ISBN: 9786612005046 1282005049 0226355934 9780226355931 0226355918 9780226355917 0226355926 Year: 2009 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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The first book to chart the country's growth using the boundary as a political and cultural focus, Bill Hubbard's narative begins by explaining how the original thirteen colonies organized their borders and decided that unsettled lands should be yeld in trust for the common benefit of the people. Mapping - with the help of photographs, diagrams, and hundreds of maps - how each state came to have its current shape, and how the nation itself formed within its present borders, American Boundaries will provide historians, geographers, and general readers alike with the fascinating story behind those fifty distinctive jigsaw-puzzle pieces that together form the United States.

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