Global West, American Frontier Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression |
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| Author:
| Wrobel, David M. |
| Series title: | Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8263-3081-9 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2014 |
| Publisher: | University of New Mexico Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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Looking at both European and American travelers' accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville's Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counternarrative to the nation's romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to our history who deserve new attention.
Looking at both European and American travelers' accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville's Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counternarrative to the nation's romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to our history who deserve new attention.