The Wild West: The Mythical Cowboy and Social Theory

by Will Wright

Book Overview

This book, written by the author of the celebrated volume Six Guns and Society, explains why the myth of the Wild West is popular around the world. It shows how the cultural icon of the Wild West speaks to deep desires of individualism and liberty and offers a vision of social contract theory in which a free and equal individual (the cowboy) emerges from the state of nature (the wilderness) to build a civil society (the frontier community)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761952330
• ISBN13: 9780761952336
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.1"