{"product_id":"conquests-and-consequences-isbn-9780882952703","title":"Conquests and Consequences","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConquests and Consequences\u003c\/i\u003e introduces students to the history of the American West by examining key questions about the identity of the region.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses how diverse societies and empires have shaped and reshaped the American West over the centuries\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLooks at the points at which the West has functioned as a colony, and its transition to functioning as a region\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines how the concept of frontier functions in the West\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIllustrated with numerous maps, images, and photographs, in partnership with the Buffalo Bill Historical Center\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Introductions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2: The First West: Native Peoples\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3: West is North: The Spanish Empire\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4: West is South: The French Empire\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5: The English Empire: Turner's First War\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Growing Pains\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Putting Down Roots\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8: This Land is Our Land?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Last Frontiers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCHapter 10: The \"Progressive\" Era\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11: From Boom to Bust\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Depression to Cold War\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 13: The Metropolitan West to the 1980s\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 14: From the Eighties to the new Millennium\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 15: Into the Future and Back to the Past\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“The new interpretation makes the twentieth century in all its multicultural and ecological elements a part of Western history rather than an afterthought once the fronter closes. . . .  \u003ci\u003eConquests \u0026amp; Consequences\u003c\/i\u003e is well-written and holds a reader’s interest even as the narrative races across the centuries.” –Journal of the West\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Higham and Katerberg invite students to consider history’s relevance to their lives as global citizens and to examine what hope they have for the future. Whether or not they agree that in the West change is ‘the only thing we can be sure of,’ readers of \u003ci\u003eConquests \u0026amp; Consequences \u003c\/i\u003e will enjoy and learn from this provocative textbook.” – Great Plains Quarterly\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarol L. Higham\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent scholar who has taught at Winona State University, Texas A\u0026amp;M University, Davidson College, and theUniversity of North Carolina - Charlotte. Her first book, \u003ci\u003eNoble, Wretched and Redeemable\u003c\/i\u003e, examined missionary attitudes toward Indians in the Canadian and U.S. Wests. She then edited two comparative textbooks, \u003ci\u003eOne West, Two Myths\u003c\/i\u003e. Currently, she is writing a book on myths about Indians as cannibals in Western North America.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam H. Katerberg\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of history and director of the Dirk and JoAnn Mellema Program in Western American Studies at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His research focuses on national identity, religion, popular culture, and the West in North America. His published work includes \u003ci\u003eModernity and the Dilemma of North American Anglican Identities, 1880-1950\u003c\/i\u003e (2001); \u003ci\u003eThe Future of Hope: Christian Tradition amid Modernity and Postmodernity,\u003c\/i\u003e coedited with Miroslav Volf (2004); \u003ci\u003eFuture West: Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier Science Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e (2008); and essays on the history and culture of the North American West in \u003ci\u003eWestern American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e  and \u003ci\u003eThe American Review of Canadian Studies.\u003c\/i\u003e He is currently working on projects on political extremism in the United States since World War II and on violence and power in the North American West.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988975436005,"sku":"NP9780882952703","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780882952703.jpg?v=1761782279","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/conquests-and-consequences-isbn-9780882952703","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}