Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation of the American West

by William G. Robbins

Book Overview

Popular writers and historians alike have perpetuated the powerful myth of the rugged-individualist single-handedly transforming the American West. In reality, William Robbins counters, it was the Guggenheims and Goulds, the Harrimans and Hearsts, and the Morgans and Mellons who masterminded what the West was to become. Remove the romance, he shows, and a darker West emerges--a colonial-like region where "industrial statesmen," aided by eastern U.S...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700607501
• ISBN13: 9780700607501
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"