Trails: Toward a New Western History is a collection of historiographic essays anticipated to offer a balanced view of the Western past, and helps us consider the old and familiar in new ways.
Essays include three sections-- Trails: Beyond Agrarian Myth by Donald Worster; Trashing the Trails by Richard White; Western Women at Cultural Crossroads by Peggy Pascoe; The Trail to Santa Fe, The Unleashing of the Western Public Intellectual by Patricia Limerick.
--Territories: What on Earth is the New Western History by Patricia Limerick; Another Look at Frontier/Western Historiography by Gerald Thompson; The "New Western History", An Assessment by Michael P. Malone; The Longer, Grimmer, More Interesting Story by Elliott West; American Wests: Historiographical Perspectives by Brian W. Dippe.
--Global West: Beyond the Last Frontier: Toward a New Approach to Western American History by Michael P. Malone; Frontiers and Empires in the Late Nineteenth Century by Walter Nugent; Laying Siege to Western History: the Emergence of New Paradigms by William G. Robbins.
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Collection
Morris Werner
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
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Book
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Other Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
Search Terms
West(US), Historigraphy, Expansion, American West, Trails, Santa Fe Trail, Western History
Book Details
Author
Limerick, Patricia Nelson, Clyde Milner II, & Charles E. Rankin, Editors
