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Pages: 272
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Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-19 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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In Revolutionary America, colonists surged across the Appalachians, Indians fought to preserve their land, and a bloodbath ensued—but why? Breaking with previ
Unsettling the West
Language: en
Pages: 382
Authors: JoAnn Levy
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
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By the end of 1849, an estimated thirty-nine thousand gold-seekers had arrived in San Francisco by sea, and some thirty thousand others had crossed the continen
Photography and Ontology
Language: en
Pages: 294
Authors: Donna West Brett
Categories: Photography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-03 - Publisher: Routledge

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This edited collection explores the complex ways in which photography is used and interpreted: as a record of evidence, as a form of communication, as a means o
Unsettling the Literary West
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Authors: Nathaniel Lewis
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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The test of western literature has invariably been Is it real? Is it accurate? Authentic? The result is a standard anything but literary, as Nathaniel Lewis obs
The Contested Plains
Language: en
Pages: 454
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Deftly retracing a pivotal chapter in one of America's most dramatic stories, Elliott West chronicles the struggles, triumphs and defeats of both Indians and wh