{"product_id":"the-american-west-isbn-9780631210856","title":"The American West","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracing events from the pre-history to the present day, this book offers a concise and accessible history of the American West.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the complex interactions between and among cultures in the American West\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eChronologically organized and informed by the latest scholarship\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eGrounded in attention to race, class, gender, and the environment, the text focuses on social, economic, and political forces that shaped the lived experiences of diverse westerners and influenced the patterns of western history.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Introduction. \u003cp\u003e1. First Wests, Many Wests.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Inside Native Wests.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Enforcing an American West.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Imperial Wests.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. A Diverse, Urban, and Federal West.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Mythic West and Modern West.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuggested Readings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e  “Anne Butler and Michael Lansing have given their best then to a difficult task-that of writing a readable and workable history of the American West. A noble effort, and it deserves examination by those who teach and ponder the history of the American West.” (\u003ci\u003eWestern History Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e)  \u003cp\u003e\"The \u003ci\u003eAmerican West\u003c\/i\u003e is both concise and a significant contribution to understanding the famous region. It offers fresh insights, which is always a good recommendation.\" (\u003ci\u003eHistory\u003c\/i\u003e, October 2008)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eAnne M. Butler\u003c\/b\u003e is Trustee Professor, Emeritus, at Utah State University and a past editor of the \u003ci\u003eWestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e. Author of numerous articles and books, including \u003ci\u003eDaughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West\u003c\/i\u003e (1985), she has published extensively on matters of race, class, and gender in western history.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael J. Lansing\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of History at Augsburg College. His essays have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eWestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUtah Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Historical Geography\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEthics, Place, and Environment\u003c\/i\u003e. He serves on the editorial board of the University of Arizona Press monograph series “Western Women’s Voices.”\u003c\/p\u003e Exploring the complex interactions between and among cultures, this book offers a fresh reading of the history of the American West. Chronologically organized and informed by the latest scholarship, this work examines regional events within the ever shifting boundaries of the West, from pre-history to the present day. Grounded in attention to race, class, gender, and the environment, \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe American West: A Concise History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on significant social, economic, and political forces that shaped the lived experiences of diverse westerners and influenced the patterns of western history.  \"With fresh insights and lively writing, this brief volume addresses major themes of culture, environment, politics, violence, and popular myth-making that shaped the American West from earliest times to the present day. By focusing on the West’s diverse peoples, women and men, Butler and Lansing underscore the fascinating complexity of this vast region that remains vital for an understanding of the United States and its history.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eClyde A. Milner,\u003c\/b\u003e Arkansas State University  \u003cp\u003e“With admirable clarity, the authors analyze the West’s diverse regions, meanings, and populations across many centuries. This is a fine, insightful book.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eWilliam Deverell,\u003c\/b\u003e University of Southern California\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“A wonderfully readable, thematically sophisticated survey of western history that draws heavily on the voluminous recent scholarship on the West to illuminate developments in race and gender relations, labor, the environment, economics and politics, and the region’s central place in the national imagination.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eDavid Wrobel,\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nevada, Las Vegas\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990156132581,"sku":"NP9780631210856","price":115.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631210856.jpg?v=1761786716","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-american-west-isbn-9780631210856","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}