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The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West - Patricia Nelson Limerick
The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
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"Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard WhiteThe "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded... show more
"Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard WhiteThe "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality; in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here she interprets the stories and the characters in a new way: the trappers, traders, Indians, farmers, oilmen, cowboys, and sheriffs of the Old West "meant business" in more ways than one, and their descendents mean business today. 28 illustrations
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780393304978 (0393304973)
ASIN: 0393304973
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
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DanAllosso
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3.0 The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
The tone may have been inevitable. Limerick wrote in 1987, so she had not only the heroic, Turnerian history of the west to debunk, but the even more wildly out-of-touch Reagan western myth. The attack she mounts on the normal view of the west is split between history and more current events; Lime...
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