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Museum of Modern Art New York: Exhibition Catalogues: Into the Sunset: Photography s Image of the American West (Hardcover)

Into the Sunset examines how photography has pictured established and transformed the idea of the American West from 1850 to the present. The development of photography coincided with the exploration and settlement of the West and this simultaneous... more

Skylark Meets Meadowlark : Reimagining the Bird in British Romantic and Contemporary Native American Literature (Hardcover)

A Native rereading of both British Romanticism and mainstream Euro-American ecocriticism this cross-cultural transatlantic study of literary imaginings about birds sets the agenda for a more sophisticated and nuanced ecocriticism. Lakota critic Thomas... more

American Literature Readings in the 21st Elizabeth Spencer s Complicated Cartographies: Reimagining Home the South and Southern Literary Production (Hardcover)

This book subjects the works of Elizabeth Spencer critically acclaimed but canonically marginalized to a study that reveals their interaction with the southern canon as they question its boundaries and remap the long-established landscapes of southern... more

Asian American Experience: In Pursuit of Gold : Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West (Hardcover)

Both a history of an overlooked community and a well-rounded reassessment of prevailing assumptions about Chinese miners in the American West In Pursuit of Gold brings to life in rich detail the world of turn-of-the-century mining towns in the... more

Women in the West: Bright Epoch : Women and Coeducation in the American West (Hardcover)

With the passage of the Morrill Act in 1862 many states in the Midwest and the West chartered land-grant colleges following the Civil War. Because of both progressive ideologies and economic necessity these institutions admitted women from their... more

William F. Cody Series on the History and Culture of the American West: Art and Advertising in Buffalo Bill s Wild West (Series #6) (Hardcover)

Beautifully designed Art and Advertising in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West presents a new perspective on the art innovation and advertising acumen that created the international frontier experience of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West. more

The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West: Visions of the Big Sky : Painting and Photographing the Northern Rocky Mountain West (Series #5) (Hardcover)

From the Wind River Range to the Canadian border the northern Rocky Mountain West is an outsized land of stunning dimensions and emotive power. In Visions of the Big Sky Dan Flores revisits the Northern Rockies artistic tradition to explore its... more

Modern Arabic Literature (Hardcover): East Winds West Winds (Hardcover)

Originally published in Cairo in 1998 this carefully crafted novel represents a welcome addition to a body of literature that has so far received less than the attention it merits by comparison with that of Egypt and the Levant. Set among the oil wells... more

American Crossroads: Stranger Intimacy : Contesting Race Sexuality and the Law in the North American West (Series #31) (Edition 1) (Hardcover)

In exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants Nayan Shah illuminates a stunning transient world of heterogeneous social relations--dignified collaborative and illicit. At the same time he demonstrates how the United States and Canada in... more

The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West: Placing Memory : A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment (Series #3) (Hardcover)

Placing Memory is a powerful visual record of the internment. Featuring Todd Stewart’s stunning color photographs of the sites as they appear today the book provides a rigorous visual survey of the physical features of the camps—roads architectural... more

Pre-Owned: The Columbia History of American Television (Columbia Histories of Modern American Life) (Hardcover 9780231121644 0231121644)

The Columbia History of American Television (Columbia Histories of Modern American Life) ISBN-10 0231121644 ISBN-13 9780231121644 Edgerton Gary 512 pages Publisher: Columbia University Press Binding: Hardcover Television is a form of media without... more

Studies in American Popular History and Culture: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: African American Reform Rhetoric and the Rise of a Modern Nation State (Hardcover)

A prominent early feminist abolitionist and civil rights advocate Frances Ellen Watkins Harper wrote and spoke across genres and reform platforms during the turbulent second half of the nineteenth century. Her invention of a new commonplace language of... more

Voice in the American West: Llano Estacado : An Island in the Sky (Hardcover)

The Llano Estacado Coronado’s legendary “staked plains � comprises all or part of thirty-three counties in Texas and four in New Mexico. This enormous island of grass covers approximately 32 000 square miles of arid prairie used primarily today... more

Pre-Owned The Novel of the American West Hardcover John R. Milton

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Historical Archaeology of the American West: On the Edge of Purgatory : An Archaeology of Place in Hispanic Colorado (Hardcover)

Southeastern Colorado was known as the northernmost boundary of New Spain in the sixteenth century. By the late 1800s the region was U.S. territory but the majority of settlers remained Hispanic families. They had a complex history of interaction with... more

Pre-Owned Hispanics in the American West Cultures Hardcover Jorge Iber Arnoldo DeLeon

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West Across the Pacific: American Involvement in East Asia from 1898 to the Vietnam War (Hardcover)

This book addresses the problem of a country telling a grand narrative to itself that does not hold up under closer examination a narrative that leads to possibly avoidable war. In particular the book explains and questions the narrative the United... more

Pre-Owned Backlands: A Novel of the American West Thorndike Press Large Print Core Hardcover Michael McGarrity

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Pre-Owned Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West (Hardcover) by Lillian Schlissel Andrea Davis Pinkney

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Pre-Owned Voices of the American West Volume 2: The Settler and Soldier Interviews of Eli S. Ricker 1903 (Hardcover) by Eli S Ricker Richard E Jensen

In this second volume of interviews conducted by Nebraska judge Eli S. Ricker he focuses on white eyewitnesses and participants in the occupying and settling of the American West in the nineteenth century. Richard E. Jensen brings together all of... more

Pre-Owned Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West Hardcover

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Pre-Owned A Free and Hardy Life : Theodore Roosevelt s Sojourn in the American West (Hardcover) 9780982559789

9780982559789. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 151. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 151 p. Contains: Halftones black & white. Theodore Roosevelt ventured into the American West to seek authentic... more

Pre-Owned 1833-1933 (Wild West Shows and the Images of American Indians) Hardcover

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Perimeters of Democracy : Inverse Utopias and the Wartime Social Landscape in the American West (Hardcover)

During times of conflict Americans have worried that enemies within would twist freedom of speech into a weapon of propaganda and use freedom of assembly to unleash violent internal chaos. As a result the government isolated and confined within federal... more

The Nation s Largest Landlord: The Bureau of Land Management in the American West (Hardcover)

It is the largest landholder in America overseeing nearly an eighth of the country: 258 million acres located almost exclusively west of the Mississippi River with even twice as much below the surface. Its domain embraces wildlife and wilderness timber... more

Barricades : The First African-American West Point Cadets and Their Constant Fight for Survival (Hardcover)

It was not until well into the 20th Century that West Point became fully integrated and the backstory of how this came about is the subject of this compelling work. It is a story that is both shameful and praiseworthy a tale of young African-Americans... more

The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West: Julius Seyler and the Blackfeet : An Impressionist at Glacier National Park (Series #7) (Hardcover)

German Impressionist artist Julius Seyler had already made a name for himself in Europe when America beckoned. While in St. Paul Minnesota he encountered Louis Hill head of the Great Northern Railroad who wanted to encourage travel to Montana’s newly... more

Near East to Far West : Fictions of French and American Colonialism (Hardcover)

A new look at French Orientalism’s influence on the art of the American West showing how aesthetics and ideology jointly informed approaches to colonialism and expansion during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in both France and the... more

Pre-Owned The West Point Atlas of American Wars 1689-1900 (Hardcover) 9780805033915

Like New Condition: Used book that is in almost brand-new condition. ISBN: 9780805033915 ISBN10: 0805033912 Contributors: Esposito Vincent J. Esposito Vincent more

The Water-Energy Nexus in the American West (Hardcover) by Douglas S. Kenney Robert Wilkinson

Hard cover. Pages: 296. 296 p. Intended for college/higher education audience. The nexus between water and energy raises a set of public policy questions that go far beyond water and energy. Economic vitality and management of scarce and precious... more

Pre-Owned In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990 (Hardcover 9780393041057) by Quintard Taylor

9780393041057. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 415. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 415 p. Contains: Illustrations. The American West is mistakenly known as a region with few African Americans and... more

Historical Atlas of the American West : With Original Maps (Edition 1) (Hardcover)

Spectacular in scope and visually brilliant this atlas presents a sweeping history of the American West through more than 600 original full-color maps and extended captions. From the earliest human inhabitants and the first European explorers to the... more

Race and Culture in the American West Series: Race and the War on Poverty : From Watts to East L.A. (Series #3) (Hardcover)

President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty did more than offer aid to needy Americans; in some cities it also sparked both racial conflict and cooperation. Race and the War on Poverty examines the African American and Mexican American community... more

Women Writers of the American West 1833-1927 (Hardcover)

Women Writers of the American West 1833-1927 recovers the names and works of hundreds of women who wrote about the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries some of them long forgotten and others better known novelists poets... more

Great American Levees; a Comparative Report on Flood Protection in the Mississippi and Sacramento Valleys Made for the West Sacramento Company by Haviland Dozier & Tibbetts .. (Hardcover)

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United... more

Mormon Convert Mormon Defector : A Scottish Immigrant in the American West 1848–1861 (Hardcover)

Peter McAuslan heeded Mormon missionaries spreading the faith in his native Scotland in the mid-1840s. The uncertainty his family faced in a rapidly industrializing economy the political turmoil erupting across Europe the welter of competing... more

Pre-Owned A Buffalo in the House: The True Story of a Man an Animal and American West Hardcover R. D. Rosen

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Crisscrossing Borders in Literature of the American West (Hardcover)

In one consequential volume Crisscrossing Borders in Literature of the American West presents the cross-section of a fast-changing and greatly expanded field. Through interdisciplinary essays this volume on the post-national West challenges the idea of... more