The American West and the world transnational and comparative perspectives
"The American West and the World provides a synthetic introduction to the transnational history of the American West. Drawing from the insights of recent scholarship, Janne Lahti recenters the history of the U.S. West in the global contexts of empires and settler colonialism, discussing explora...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2018.
2019. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009421118806719 |
| Sumario: | "The American West and the World provides a synthetic introduction to the transnational history of the American West. Drawing from the insights of recent scholarship, Janne Lahti recenters the history of the U.S. West in the global contexts of empires and settler colonialism, discussing exploration, expansion, migration,violence, intimacies, and ideas. Lahti discusses both established subfields of Western scholarship, such as borderlands studies and transnational histories of empire, as well as relatively unexplored connections between the West and geographically nonadjacent spaces. Lucid and incisive, The American West and the World firmly situates the historical West in its proper global context"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 189 pages) : illustrations (black & white); digital file(s) Also available in print form |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781317285335 9781315643212 |
