Global West, American Frontier

Released on by David M. Wrobel
preview-18

  • Global West, American Frontier Book Detail

  • Author : David M. Wrobel
  • Release Date : 2013-10-15
  • Publisher : UNM Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 331
  • ISBN 13 : 0826353711
  • File Size : 12,12 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Global West, American Frontier by David M. Wrobel PDF Summary

Book Description: This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both European and American travelers’ accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counter narrative to the nation’s romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to our history who deserve new attention. Prior to the professionalization of academic disciplines, the reading public gained much of its knowledge about the world from travel writing. Travel writers found a wide and respectful audience for their reports on history, geography, and the natural world, in addition to reporting on aboriginal cultures before the advent of anthropology as a discipline. Although in recent decades western historians have paid little attention to travel writing, Wrobel demonstrates that this genre in fact offers an important and rich understanding of the American West—one that extends and complicates a simple reading of the West that promotes the notions of Manifest Destiny or American exceptionalism. Wrobel finds counterpoints to the mythic West of the nineteenth century in such varied accounts as George Catlin’s Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium (1852), Richard Francis Burton’s The City of the Saints (1861), and Mark Twain’s Following the Equator (1897), reminders of the messy and contradictory world that people navigated in the past much as they do in the present. His book is a testament to the instructive ways in which the best travel writers have represented the West.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Global West, American Frontier books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Global West, American Frontier

Global West, American Frontier

File Size : 57,57 MB
Total View : 5468 Views
DOWNLOAD

This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both Euro

Re-living the American Frontier

Re-living the American Frontier

File Size : 87,87 MB
Total View : 2604 Views
DOWNLOAD

Who owns the West? -- Buffalo Bill and Karl May : the origins of German Western fandom -- A wall runs through it : western fans in the two Germanies -- Little h

Hollywood's West

Hollywood's West

File Size : 77,77 MB
Total View : 4937 Views
DOWNLOAD

American historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner have argued that the West has been the region that most clearly defines American democracy and the national

The Way West

The Way West

File Size : 83,83 MB
Total View : 5658 Views
DOWNLOAD

A seasoned historian assembles a remarkable cadre of authors, who reveal forgotten, true stories of the American frontier.

Chinese on the American Frontier

Chinese on the American Frontier

File Size : 68,68 MB
Total View : 2940 Views
DOWNLOAD

A collection of articles dealing with the Chinese presence in the late 19th century American West, when anti-Chinese sentiment was at its peak. Major themes inc