دانلود کتاب The American West: Competing Visions

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Part One: Old West......Page 6
Figures......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Lewis and Clark: Mapping the West......Page 20
Frontier Germ Theory......Page 48
‘The Gun that Won the West’......Page 69
Cowboy Presidents and the Political Branding of the American West......Page 96
Part Two: New West......Page 128
Women in the West: The Trailblazer and the Homesteader......Page 130
Women in the West: The ‘Indian Princess’ and the ‘Lady Wildcat’......Page 150
The Wild West Defiled: The American Indian, Genocide and the Sand Creek Massacre......Page 180
The Thirsty West: Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam and Las Vegas......Page 203
Part Three: Recreating The West......Page 238
The Western Renaissance: Brokeback Mountain and the Return of Jesse James......Page 240
The Arcade Western......Page 269
Turn here for ‘The Sunny Side of the Atom’: Tourism, the Bomb and Popular Culture in the Nuclear West......Page 293
Re-creation and the Theme Park West......Page 314
Bibliography......Page 333
Index......Page 347