Global West, American Frontier : Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression / David M. Wrobel.

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, this book offers a counternarrative to the nation's romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importanc...

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Main Author: Wrobel, David M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013
Series:Calvin P. Horn lectures in Western history and culture.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central