Writing western history : essays on major western historians
Title:
Writing western history : essays on major western historians
Author:
Etulain, Richard W.
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1991]
©1991
Physical Description:
ix, 370 pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
"Published in cooperation with the UNM Center for the American West."
Language:
English
Contents:
The rise of western historiography / Richard W. Etulain -- Josiah Royce : the West as community / Robert V. Hine -- Hubert Howe Bancroft : first western regionalist / Charles S. Peterson -- Turner's first stand : the significance of significance in American history / William Cronon -- Frederick Jackson Turner and western regionalism / Michael C. Steiner -- After Turner : the western historiography of Frederic Logan Paxson / Richard W. Etulain -- Walter Prescott Webb and the search for the West / Elliott West -- Herbert Eugene Bolton : the making of a western historian / Donald E. Worcester -- James C. Malin : a voice from the grassland / Allan G. Bogue -- Henry Nash Smith's myth of the West / Lee Clark Mitchell -- Persistent traits and the persistent historian : the American frontier and Ray Allen Billington / Patricia Nelson Limerick -- Earl Pomeroy and the reorientation of western American history / Michael P. Malone -- Visions and revisions : recent interpretations of the American West / Richard W. Etulain.
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ISBN:
9780826312884
9780826312891
Format :
Book
