Colony and empire : the capitalist transformation of the American West / William G. Robbins.
Material type: TextSeries: Development of western resourcesPublication details: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c1994.Description: xvi, 255 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0700606459 (alk. paper)
- 9780700606450 (alk. paper)
- HC107.A17 R59 1994
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Includes bibliographical (p. 199-243) and index.
pt. 1. Western myth, western reality. Ideology and the way west -- The U.S.-Mexico borderlands: tradition versus modernization -- The American and Canadian Wests: two nations, two cultures -- pt. 2. Forces of transformation. In pursuit of private gain: the West as investment arena -- The industrial west: the paradox of the machine in the garden -- From capitalist patriarchy to corporate monopoly: the life and times of Samuel T. Hauser -- An "Equilibrium of chaos": external control and the northern West -- pt. 3. Forces of integration. The South and the West: a comparative view -- Of country and city: the metropolis and hinterland in the modern West.