"It's your misfortune and none of my own" : a history of the American West
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書誌事項
"It's your misfortune and none of my own" : a history of the American West
University of Oklahoma Press, c1991
1st ed
- タイトル別名
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History of the American West
New history of the American West
大学図書館所蔵 全8件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book embodies the theme that, as succeeding groups have occupied the American West and shaped the land, they have done so without regard for present inhabitants. Like the cowboy herding the dogies, they have cared little about the cost their activities imposed on others; what has mattered is the immediate benefit they have derived from their transformation of the land. Drawing on a recent flowering of scholarship on the western environment, western gender relations, minority history, and urban and labour history, as well as on more traditional western sources, "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own" is about the creation of the region rather than the vanishing of the frontier. Richard White tells how the various parts of the West - its distinct environments, its metropolitan areas and vast hinterlands, the various ethnic and racial groups and classes - are held together by a series of historical relationships that developed over time. A common dependence on the federal government and common roots in a largely extractive and service-based economy were formative influences on Western states and territories.
A dual labour system based on race and the existence of minority groups with distinctive legal status have helped further define the region. Patterns of political participation and political organization have proved enduring. Together, these relationships among people, and between people and place, have made the west a historical creation and a distinctive region. In the American imagination the West still embodies possibilities inherent in the vastness and beauty of the place itself. But, Richard White explains, the possibilities many imagined for themselves have yielded to the possibilities seized by others. Many who thought themselves cowboys have, in the end, turned out to be dogies.
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