Global West, American Frontier Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression
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 counternarrative to the nation's romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the import...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press
2013.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b45605130*spi |
| Sumario: | 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 counternarrative 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico, 330 páginas : ilustraciones |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (páginas 259-295) e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9780826353719 9781299843004 9780826353702 |
