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Reopening the American West

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Take a good look at the American West and you'll see that the frontier is undergoing constant changes—not only changes made to the land but also changes in attitudes about the land held by the people who live there.

In this book Mike Davis, Stephen Pyne, William deBuys, Donald Worster, Dan Flores, and others re-examine the relationship between people and the environment in the American West over five hundred years, from the legacy of Coronado's search for the Cities of Gold to the social costs of tourism and gaming inflicted by modern adventurers. By exploring places in the West, aspects of the region's past, and ways of understanding some of its pressing issues, the authors foster a better understanding of how people interact and perceive land .

Reopening the American West takes a fresh approach to the history of the region, examining the premises of earlier scholars as well as those who have redefined the study of the West over the past two decades. It combines provocative essays with insightful analyses to address issues that are representative of the West in the twentieth century—multiculturalism, water issues, resource exploitation—and to reopen the West for all readers interested in new ways of looking at its wide-open spaces.

Places

Dreams of Earth, William deBuys

Environmentalism and Multiculturalism, Dan L. Flores

Pyre on the Mountain, Stephen J. Pyne

Las Vegas Versus Nature, Mike Davis

Pasts

The Legacy of John Wesley Powell, Donald Worster

Pokey’s Tourism and Transformation on the Western Navajo Reservation, Hal K. Rothman

Negotiating National Western Tourism and "See American First," Marguerite Schaffer

Understanding

Place Humanists at the Headgates, Helen Ingram

Tapping the Resource Exploitation and Conservation in the Intermountain West, Char Miller

The Meaning of Reimagining Community in a Changing West, Robert Gottlieb

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: February 01, 1998

Reopening the American West

0/5 ( ratings)

Take a good look at the American West and you'll see that the frontier is undergoing constant changes—not only changes made to the land but also changes in attitudes about the land held by the people who live there.

In this book Mike Davis, Stephen Pyne, William deBuys, Donald Worster, Dan Flores, and others re-examine the relationship between people and the environment in the American West over five hundred years, from the legacy of Coronado's search for the Cities of Gold to the social costs of tourism and gaming inflicted by modern adventurers. By exploring places in the West, aspects of the region's past, and ways of understanding some of its pressing issues, the authors foster a better understanding of how people interact and perceive land .

Reopening the American West takes a fresh approach to the history of the region, examining the premises of earlier scholars as well as those who have redefined the study of the West over the past two decades. It combines provocative essays with insightful analyses to address issues that are representative of the West in the twentieth century—multiculturalism, water issues, resource exploitation—and to reopen the West for all readers interested in new ways of looking at its wide-open spaces.

Places

Dreams of Earth, William deBuys

Environmentalism and Multiculturalism, Dan L. Flores

Pyre on the Mountain, Stephen J. Pyne

Las Vegas Versus Nature, Mike Davis

Pasts

The Legacy of John Wesley Powell, Donald Worster

Pokey’s Tourism and Transformation on the Western Navajo Reservation, Hal K. Rothman

Negotiating National Western Tourism and "See American First," Marguerite Schaffer

Understanding

Place Humanists at the Headgates, Helen Ingram

Tapping the Resource Exploitation and Conservation in the Intermountain West, Char Miller

The Meaning of Reimagining Community in a Changing West, Robert Gottlieb

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: February 01, 1998

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