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RECORD NUMBER: 3 OF 6Main Title | Something in the soil : legacies and reckonings in the New West / | |||||||||||
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Author | Limerick, Patricia Nelson | |||||||||||
Publisher | W.W. Norton, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 2000 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 42420946 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 0393037886 | |||||||||||
Subjects | West (US)--History ; West (US)--Historiography | |||||||||||
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Edition | 1st ed. | |||||||||||
Collation | 384 p. ; 25 cm. | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references (p. {345}-374) and index. |
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Contents Notes | 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. |