Description
A Companion to the American West is a rigorous, illuminating introduction to the history of the American West. Twenty-five essays by expert scholars synthesize the best and most provocative work in the field and provide a comprehensive overview of themes and historiography.
- Covers the culture, politics, and environment of the American West through periods of migration, settlement, and modernization
- Discusses Native Americans and their conflicts and integration with American settlers
About the Author
William Deverell is Professor of History at the University of Southern California and director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. He is the author of Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910 (1994) and Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past (2004). He co-authored Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region (2000) and The West in the History of the Nation (2000) and co-edited California Progressivism Revisited (1994) and Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (2001).
Book Information
ISBN 9781405156530
Author William Deverell
Format Paperback
Page Count 592
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 1007g
Dimensions(mm) 246mm * 170mm * 31mm
