Something in the soil :
Limerick, Patricia Nelson, 1951-
Something in the soil : legacies and reckonings in the New West / Patricia Nelson Limerick. - New York : W.W. Norton, 2001, c2000. - 384 p. ; 21 cm.
"First published as a Norton paperback 2001"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Haunted America -- The adventures of the frontier in the twentieth century -- The case of the premature departure: the trans-Mississippi West and American history textbooks -- Historical lessons on Anza Day -- John Sutter: prototype for failure -- Turnerians all: the dream of a helpful history in an intelligible world -- Mission to the environmentalists -- Disorientation and reorientation: the American landscape discovered from the West -- The Gold Rush and the shaping of the American West -- Peace initiative: using the Mormons to rethink culture and ethnicity in American history -- Will the real Californian please stand up? -- The shadows of Heaven itself: the demanding dreams of the American West -- Believing in the American West -- A how-to guide for the academic going public -- Dancing with professors: the trouble with academic prose -- Limerick's rules of verbal etiquette.
0393321029 (pbk.) 9780393321029 (pbk.)
West (U.S.)--History.
West (U.S.)--Historiography.
F591 / .L57 2001
Something in the soil : legacies and reckonings in the New West / Patricia Nelson Limerick. - New York : W.W. Norton, 2001, c2000. - 384 p. ; 21 cm.
"First published as a Norton paperback 2001"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Haunted America -- The adventures of the frontier in the twentieth century -- The case of the premature departure: the trans-Mississippi West and American history textbooks -- Historical lessons on Anza Day -- John Sutter: prototype for failure -- Turnerians all: the dream of a helpful history in an intelligible world -- Mission to the environmentalists -- Disorientation and reorientation: the American landscape discovered from the West -- The Gold Rush and the shaping of the American West -- Peace initiative: using the Mormons to rethink culture and ethnicity in American history -- Will the real Californian please stand up? -- The shadows of Heaven itself: the demanding dreams of the American West -- Believing in the American West -- A how-to guide for the academic going public -- Dancing with professors: the trouble with academic prose -- Limerick's rules of verbal etiquette.
0393321029 (pbk.) 9780393321029 (pbk.)
West (U.S.)--History.
West (U.S.)--Historiography.
F591 / .L57 2001