Creating the American West: Boundaries and Borderlands

by Derek R. Everett and Everett

Book Overview

Boundaries--lines imposed on the landscape--shape our lives, dictating everything from which candidates we vote for to what schools our children attend to the communities with which we identify. In Creating the American West , historian Derek R. Everett examines the function of these internal lines in American history generally and in the West in particular. Drawing lines to create states in the trans-Mississippi West, he points out, imposed a specific...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806144467
• ISBN13: 9780806144467
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"