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OverviewDistinguished historian Richard W. Etulain brings together a generous selection of essays from his sixty-year career as a specialist on the US West in this essential volume. Each essay provides an invaluable overview of the rise of western literary history and historiography--including insightful evaluations of individual historians--revealing summaries of regional literature and discussions of western stories yet to be told. Together these writings furnish readers with useful considerations of important subjects about the American West. All those interested in the American West and its interpreters will find these illuminative moments of literary history and historiography especially appealing. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Richard W. EtulainPublisher: University of New Mexico Press Imprint: University of New Mexico Press Weight: 0.216kg ISBN: 9780826364456ISBN 10: 0826364454 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 01 May 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsPreface Chapter One. Transitions in Western Historiography Chapter Two. The American Literary West and Its Interpreters: The Rise of a New Historiography Chapter Three. Shifting Interpretations of Western American Cultural History Chapter Four. The Twentieth-Century American West: A New Historiographical Frontier Chapter Five. Research Opportunities in Twentieth-Century Western Cultural History Chapter Six. After Turner: The Western Historiography of Frederic Logan Paxson Chapter Seven. Earl Pomeroy: Reorienting Western History Chapter Eight. Inventing the Pacific Northwest: Novelists and the Region's History Chapter Nine. Western Stories for the Next Generation Chapter Ten. Beyond Conflict, Toward Complexity: New Views of the American West Chapter Eleven. Research Opportunities in Western History Poll: The Most Influential Western Historians Notes American West Historiography: Books and EssaysReviewsAn important topic masterfully executed by the leading authority in the dual fields of literary history and historiography. David V. Holtby, author of Lest We Forget: World War I and New Mexico Richard Etulain is one of the most significant interpreters of Western history, and especially its literary and cultural history, of the past half-century. To gather his essays, old and new, in one volume is a great contribution. Michael S. Green, author of Nevada: A History of the Silver State Author InformationRichard W. Etulain is a professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico, where he also edited the New Mexico Historical Review and directed the Center for the American West (1989-2001). Etulain served as president at both the Western Literature and Western History associations, and he is the author or editor of more than sixty books on the history and cultures of the American West. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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