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The Great Plains
Engelsk Paperback

The Great Plains

Engelsk Paperback

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Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University   This iconic description of the interaction between the vast central plains of the continent and the white Americans who moved there in the mid-nineteenth century has endured as one of the most influential, widely known, and controversial works in western history since its first publication in 1931. Arguing that “the Great Plains environment . . . constitutes a geographic unity whose influences have been so powerful as to put a characteristic mark upon everything that survives within its borders,” Walter Prescott Webb identifies the revolver, barbed wire, and the windmill as technological adaptations that facilitated Anglo conquest of the arid, treeless region. Webb draws on history, anthropology, geography, demographics, climatology, and economics in arguing that the 98th Meridian constitutes an institutional fault line at which “practically every institution that was carried across it was either broken and remade or else greatly altered.” This new edition of one of the foundational works of western American history features an introduction by Great Plains historian Andrew R. Graybill and a new index and updated design.  
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781496231338
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1496231333
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Udg. Dato:
1 aug 2022
Længde:
38mm
Bredde:
227mm
Højde:
154mm
Forlag:
University of Nebraska Press
Oplagsdato:
1 aug 2022
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