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Title: The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West by Patricia Nelson Limerick ISBN: 0-393-30497-3 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.73 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Standard for New Western History
Comment: Limerick's writing is vivid and engaging. The organization of her chapters is excellent. She critiques every aspect of the Turner thesis. Her book is/was the opening salvo in the New Western History that looks at the American West as a region instead of a process of frontiers. Limerick seeks to include everyone in her story of the American West, not just white, Anglo-American cowboys and Native Americans. A wonderful book. There is NEW stuff in this book, in that before her few historians of the west looked at women, Asians, Indians from their perspective, blacks, etc. A must read for any student of the American West!
Rating: 5
Summary: The continuity of history
Comment: Anyone who still believes with Frederick Jackson Turner that the West somehow "closed" in 1898 should read this book. Limerick advances the thesis that the same boom-bust cycles and the same struggles over land, water, and mineral rights that characterized the "Wild West" are continuing to this day. She writes in an engaging style that combines well-told narrative with penetrating analysis.
Rating: 2
Summary: This book was hard to follow.
Comment: Limerick jumps from decade to decade in this book. I would not suggest this book to anyone. I had to just make myself finish it it was horrible.
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Title: Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West by Patricia Nelson Limerick ISBN: 0393321029 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner ISBN: 0486291677 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 14 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Oxford History of the American West by Clyde A., II Milner, Carol A. O'Connor, Martha A. Sandweiss, Carol A. O'Conner ISBN: 0195112121 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past by William Cronon, George Miles, Jay Gitlin ISBN: 039302993X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 1992 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The American West: A New Interpretive History by Robert V. Hine, John MacK Faragher ISBN: 0300078358 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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