Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past

by George Miles and William Cronon

Book Overview

The history of the American West is alive with new ideas, new questions, new scholarship. Long defined by popular images of the lone cowboy and the savage Indian, and by Frederick Jackson Turner's concept of the frontier as a source of democracy and social renewal, the field of western history now admits a rich array of subjects, including the experiences of diverse peoples as well as the history of the land itself. A new generation of scholars is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039302993X
• ISBN13: 9780393029932
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.6"