The world of the American West / edited by Gordon Morris Bakken.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Routledge worlds.
Other Authors: Bakken, Gordon Morris
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2011.
Series:Routledge worlds.
Subjects:
West (U.S.) > History.
West (U.S.) > Geography.
Regionalism > West (U.S.)
West (U.S.) > Social conditions.
Physical Description:xix, 644 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The physical geography of the West / by Robert Spude
  • The flora and the fauna / by Kurt Russo
  • The Native West before 1700 / by Gregory E. Smoak
  • Hosts and horses : envirocultural effects of contact in the Amerindian West / by K.D. Motes
  • The Lewis and Clark Expedition / by Robert Carriker
  • Continued exploration of the American West : the fur trade, map makers, path markers / by William R. Swagerty
  • The "earlier, wilder image" : early artists of the American West / by Elizabeth Kuebler-Wolf
  • The borderlands of the United States West / by Sheila McManus
  • California transformed : organizing a new society, 1848-1869 / by Peter Blodgett
  • The urbanization of the American West : the processes and people in the rise of instant cities and their evolution into the twenty-first century / by Brent Rogers, Jr.
  • The hydraulic West : the history of irrigation / by Charles R. Porter
  • Leisure in the West / by Randal Fulkerson
  • Learning in the West : Western women and the culture of education / by Andrea Radke
  • Defense industries / by Susan Tschabrun
  • The rise of Western women to national stature in the early twentieth century / by Shannon D. Smith
  • American politics move west / by Gordon M. Bakken
  • Government and law in the American West / by Aaron Wilson
  • Region of extremes and contrast / by Alicia Dewey
  • American Indians in the twentieth century / by Lisa E. Emmerich
  • Leadership or dominance : the role of the Western U.S. economy in the world / by Neil Greenwood.