Name: Showdown in the big Quiet: Land, Myth, and Government in the American West (American Liberty & Justice) (en Inglés)
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Author: Bieter, John P. ; Bakken, Gordon Morris
ISBN: 9780896729032

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Showdown in the big Quiet: Land, Myth, and Government in the American West (American Liberty & Justice) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

John P. Bieter

Prefacio de

Gordon Morris Bakken

Editorial

Texas Tech University Press

Año

2015

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

352

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.6 x 15.0 x 2.0 cm

Peso

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9780896729032

N° edición

Categorías

Ee. uu. región del oeste
Delitos relativos a la ordenación del territorio y el urbanismo, la protección del patrimonio histórico y el medio ambiente
Derecho inmobiliario/derecho real. bienes inmuebles
Historia de américa
Historia local

Showdown in the big Quiet: Land, Myth, and Government in the American West (American Liberty & Justice) (en Inglés)

John P. Bieter (Autor) · Gordon Morris Bakken (Prefacio de) · Texas Tech University Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Showdown in the big Quiet: Land, Myth, and Government in the American West (American Liberty & Justice) (en Inglés)"

Owyhee County, Idaho, also known as the "Big Quiet," is the largest and least inhabited area in the lower forty-eight states. Who has decided how to use it? From violent mine wars in the mid-nineteenth century to environmental conservation disputes at the end of the twentieth, people in the West have battled over the role of government and notions of American identity to answer this question. Winners ultimately controlled the perception of their battles, often shaping the contours of the next conflict. Similarly, historians debated interpretations of the West. In the early twentieth century, Frederick Jackson Turner argued that interactions on the frontier formed American characteristics of rugged individualism, democracy, aggression, and innovation. The "New" Western historians of the late 1970s attempted to debunk this theory, revealing the racial and ethnic diversity of the West, reminding us of the role of the environment, and documenting how settlers and later corporations conquered land wrested away from Native Americans. While "New" Western historians shot holes in Turner's thesis, the myths of the Old West prevailed. People craved the identity offered in western themed novels, films, and tourism more than historical facts. Showdown in the Big Quiet demonstrates how the "Old West" speaks to the "New" and proves how the power of western mythology moved from background to central character.