Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West

by Donald Worster

Book Overview

For decades, the story of the American West has been told as a glorious tale of conquest and rugged individualism--the triumph of progress. But recently, a new school of historians has challenged this view, creating what is known as the "new western history," an approach that gives a central role to the environment, native peoples, and the concentration of power in the hands of a few. Foremost among these historians is Donald Worster. In Worster's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195086716
• ISBN13: 9780195086713
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"