Title:
Shaped by the West : a history of North America. Volume 1, To 1877 / William Deverell and Anne Hyde.
ISBN:
9780520290044
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Publication Information:
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
©2018
Physical Description:
xiv, 338 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction -- A vast native world -- First encounters : expectation and cultural difference -- Conquest and revolt : seventeenth-century wars on two frontiers -- New worlds for all : conquest and accommodation in the eighteenth century -- From middle ground to settler frontier : warfare, and diplomacy -- An era of revolution : many peoples demanding change -- Creating the United States : incorporating the first West -- Taking Indian land : removal and war in the age of Jackson -- Early republics : new nations test their borders -- Slavery, bondage, and labor in the West -- The US-Mexico war -- Westward migration : gold, land, and ambition -- The 1850s : a crisis of authority -- Civil wars spread over the West -- War and reconstruction : limiting the empire for liberty.
Summary:
"Shaped by the West is a primary-source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens. America's expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy, politics, race, freedom, and property. The sources included in this volume reflect the important role of the West in national narratives of American history, from the pre-Columbian era to 1877. William Deverell and Anne F. Hyde provide a nuanced look at the past, balancing topics in society and politics and representing all kinds of westerners--black and white, native and immigrant, male and female, powerful and powerless--from more than twenty states across the West and the shifting frontier."--Provided by publisher.
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OCLC Number:
ocn945718985
Availability:
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