Global West, American frontier : travel, empire, and exceptionalism from manifest destiny to the Great Depression / David M. Wrobel.

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"This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. 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, D...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Calvin P. Horn lectures in Western history and culture.
Main Author: Wrobel, David M. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013.
Series:Calvin P. Horn lectures in Western history and culture.
Subjects:
Travel writing > Historiography.
West (U.S.) > Description and travel > History.
West (U.S.) > Historiography.
West (U.S.) > Public opinion.
HISTORY / Social History.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
Physical Description:xv, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Exceptionalism and globalism: revisiting the traveler
  • The world in the West, the West in the world: travels in the age of empire
  • "No, adventure is not dead": frontier journeys in the last great age of exploration
  • The end of the West?: automotive frontiers of the early twentieth century
  • Rediscovering the West: regional guides in the depression years
  • Enduring roads.