Creating the West: Historical Interpretations, 1890-1990 : Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture, University of New Mexico, Septemb ... Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture)

by Gerald D. Nash

Book Overview

This book appears at a time of radical reassessment of what settling the West has meant in American history. Amidst questions now being asked about violence and exploitation as leitmotifs in western history, it is more important than ever to understand historians and their biases. In this interpretive synthesis, a major historian argues that the visions of the West held by successive generations of historians were as important as the historical record...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826312667
• ISBN13: 9780826312662
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.5"