A Companion to the American West

A COMPANION TO THE AMERICAN WEST......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 13
Part I Thinking Through the American West......Page 15
1 The Making of the First American West and the Unmaking of Other Realms......Page 17
2 Thinking West......Page 37
Part II Conquest and Its Patterns: The Nineteenth Century......Page 63
3 Passion and Imagination in the Exploration of the American West......Page 65
4 Environment and the Nineteenth-Century West: Or, Process Encounters Place......Page 89
5 Engineering the Elephant: Industrialism and the Environment in the Greater West......Page 105
6 Mining and the Nineteenth-Century American West......Page 124
7 Law and the Contact of Cultures......Page 142
8 Native Americans in the Nineteenth-Century American West......Page 155
9 Western Violence......Page 174
10 Bringing It All Back Home: Rethinking the History of Women and the Nineteenth-Century West......Page 191
11 Empire and Liberty: Contradictions and Conflicts in Nineteenth-Century Western Political History......Page 212
Part III Exceptionalism or Regionalism? The Twentieth-Century American West......Page 231
12 African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West......Page 233
13 The West and Workers, 1870–1930......Page 252
14 Societies to Match the Scenery: Twentieth-Century Environmental History in the American West......Page 268
15 Where to Draw the Line? The Pacific, Place, and the US West......Page 283
16 Religion and the American West......Page 298
17 Transients and Stickers: The Problem of Community in the American West......Page 316
18 American Indians in the Twentieth Century......Page 341
19 The New Deal's West......Page 358
20 Art, Ideology, and the West......Page 373
21 "The West Plays West": Western Tourism and the Landscape of Leisure......Page 387
22 Hispanics and Latinos......Page 402
23 City Lights: Urban History in the West......Page 424
24 Politics and the Twentieth-Century American West......Page 454
25 The Literary West and the Twentieth Century......Page 472
Bibliography......Page 493
Index......Page 565