Research Catalog

Title

The American west, as seen by Europeans and Americans / edited by Rob Kroes ; with contributions from Michael P. Malone ... [et al.].

Publication

Amsterdam : Free University Press, 1989.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kroes, Rob
• Malone, Michael P.
• Netherlands American Studies Association

Description

x, 445 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

European contributions to American studies ; 16

Uniform Title

European contributions to American studies 16.

Subject

• West (U.S.) > In literature > Congresses
• West (U.S.) > History > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Note

• Based on a 1988 symposium sponsored by the Netherlands American Studies Association in Amsterdam.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The West in American historiography / Michael P. Malone -- The American Wests : refuges from European power or frontiers of European expansion? / David W. Noble -- Ethical demography : civil society, the state, and the challenge of the North American frontier in the eighteenth century / Jeanne Chase -- Theodore Roosevelt's frontier hypothesis / Richard Slotkin -- Agricultural depression and the West, 1870-1900 / Thomas R. Wessel -- Bonanza for the land miners : a contemporary Western saga / Philip J. Gersmehl -- Environmentalism and the American West / Gordon G. Brittan, Jr. -- Queens of the Silver Dollar. The social and economic structure of prostitution in the Far West 1865-1900 / Paula Petrik -- Grub and chow. Food, foodways, class, and occupation on the Western frontier / Joseph R. Conlin -- Communism and the frontier tradition / Hyman Berman -- Labour radicalism and the American West : new perspectives in recent scholarship / George Lipsitz -- There're Dutch in them thar hills! Ethnicity in the mountain West / Rob Kroes -- Electrifying the West, 1880-1940 / David E. Nye -- Naming the West : toponyms, Whitman and the great American novel / William Boelhower -- On American picaros and the West : society, space and voice / Marc Chenetier -- The popular Western window to the American spirit? / Jan Bakker -- An Italian glance at the American West / Anna Secco -- Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull : the Wild West as a media event / John G. Blair -- Some ambiguities of Western photography / Mick Gidley -- Contemporary photography and the myth of the West / Robert Silberman -- The piazza in the garden : Louis Sullivan's attempt to de-colonise the West / Robert Twombly -- The 1939 San Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition and the empire of the West / Robert W. Rydell -- Cowboys, Europe and smoke : Marlboro in the saddle / John G. Blair -- Western icons and myths in American advertising / Berndt Ostendorf -- Accretion, syncretion and repetition : British travel writers describe San Francisco 1858-83 / R. Burchell -- Albert Verwey in New Mexico, 1883 / Marianne L. Mooijweer -- Space : the final frontier / Karin Blair.

ISBN

9062568750

LCCN

^^^90165908^

OCLC

• 22113349
• SCSB-10872791

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library