Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New WestW. W. Norton & Company, 2001 - 384 Seiten In Something in the Soil, Patricia Nelson Limerick travels far outside the usual academic circles to bring Western past and Western present into a spirited union. Whether her topic is the rapid growth in the West today, the patent awfulness of most academic writing, or struggles over the standing of the "Great White Men" of the region s past, Limerick operates on the principle that history is an active presence in the West, layers of collective memory that are, quite literally, "something in the soil." Enlightening and always witty, this wide-ranging collection of essays and arguments from the New West s landmark historian offers an artful journey into its dramatic past and contentious present." |
Inhalt
IA Haunted America | 33 |
IB The Adventures of the Frontier in the Twentieth Century | 74 |
The TransMississippi West and American History Textbooks | 93 |
Beleaguered Great White Men | 107 |
IIA Historical Lessons on Anza Day | 111 |
Prototype for Failure | 126 |
The Dream of a Helpful History in an Intelligible World | 141 |
Environmental Impacts | 167 |
Using the Mormons to Rethink Culture and Ethnicity in American History | 235 |
IVB Will the Real Californian Please Stand Up? | 256 |
The Demanding Dreams of the American West | 274 |
IVD Believing in the American West | 302 |
Epilogue | 319 |
VA A Howto Guide for the Academic Going Public | 323 |
The Trouble with Academic Prose | 333 |
VC Limericks Rules of Verbal Etiquette | 340 |
IIIA Mission to the Environmentalists | 171 |
The American Landscape Discovered from the West | 186 |
IIIC The Gold Rush and the Shaping of the American West | 214 |
The Historian as Dreamer Preaching to and by the HalfConverted | 229 |
Notes | 343 |
Index | 373 |
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