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A new significance : re-envisioning the history of the American West / edited by Clyde A. Milner II ; essays by Allan G. Bogue ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.Description: xiii, 318 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0195100476
  • 9780195100471
  • 0195100484 (paper)
  • 9780195100488 (paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • F591 .N47 1996
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction. Envisioning a second century of western history / Clyde A. Milner II -- The course of western history's first century / Allan G. Bogue -- Fighting words : the significance of the American West in the history of the United States / William Deverell ; Commentaries. Courage without illusion / Richard Maxwell Brown ; The new significance of the American West / Patricia Nelson Limerick -- Significant to whom? : Mexican Americans and the history of the American West / David G. Gutiérrez ; Commentaries. In pursuit of a brown West / Arnoldo De León ; Interpreting voice and locating power / Vicki L. Ruiz -- A place of extremes : nature, history, and the American West / Susan Rhoades Neel ; Commentaries. A mosaic of different environments / Robert W. Righter ; Place versus region in western environmental history / Dan Flores -- Significant lives : Asia and Asian Americans in the U.S. West / Gail M. Nomura ; Commentaries. Through western eyes : discovering Chinese women in America / Sucheta Mazumdar ; Extending democracy's reach / Gary Y. Okihiro -- Cultural filters : the significance of perception / Anne F. Hyde ; Commentaries. Looking West from here and there / Martha A. Sandweiss ; The shadow of Pikes Peak / Elliott West -- Still native : the significance of Native Americans in the history of the twentieth-century American West / David Rich Lewis ; Commentaries. We are restored / Peter Iverson ; New awareness for an old significance / Barre Toelken -- "A memory sweet to soldiers" : the significance of gender / Susan Lee Johnson ; Commentaries. Staring at the sun / Albert L. Hurtado ; A regendered, reracialized, resituated West / Deena J. González -- Concluding statements. Through the prism of race : the meaning of African-American history in the West / Quintard Taylor ; Reintroducing a re-envisioned West / Anne F. Hyde and William Deverell.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Envisioning a second century of western history / Clyde A. Milner II -- The course of western history's first century / Allan G. Bogue -- Fighting words : the significance of the American West in the history of the United States / William Deverell ; Commentaries. Courage without illusion / Richard Maxwell Brown ; The new significance of the American West / Patricia Nelson Limerick -- Significant to whom? : Mexican Americans and the history of the American West / David G. Gutiérrez ; Commentaries. In pursuit of a brown West / Arnoldo De León ; Interpreting voice and locating power / Vicki L. Ruiz -- A place of extremes : nature, history, and the American West / Susan Rhoades Neel ; Commentaries. A mosaic of different environments / Robert W. Righter ; Place versus region in western environmental history / Dan Flores -- Significant lives : Asia and Asian Americans in the U.S. West / Gail M. Nomura ; Commentaries. Through western eyes : discovering Chinese women in America / Sucheta Mazumdar ; Extending democracy's reach / Gary Y. Okihiro -- Cultural filters : the significance of perception / Anne F. Hyde ; Commentaries. Looking West from here and there / Martha A. Sandweiss ; The shadow of Pikes Peak / Elliott West -- Still native : the significance of Native Americans in the history of the twentieth-century American West / David Rich Lewis ; Commentaries. We are restored / Peter Iverson ; New awareness for an old significance / Barre Toelken -- "A memory sweet to soldiers" : the significance of gender / Susan Lee Johnson ; Commentaries. Staring at the sun / Albert L. Hurtado ; A regendered, reracialized, resituated West / Deena J. González -- Concluding statements. Through the prism of race : the meaning of African-American history in the West / Quintard Taylor ; Reintroducing a re-envisioned West / Anne F. Hyde and William Deverell.