Global West, American frontier (Record no. 33375)
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| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | BD-SySUS |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20160404144816.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 130517s2013 nmu o 00 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780826353719 |
| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9780826353702 (hardback) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MdBmJHUP |
| Transcribing agency | MdBmJHUP |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | F595.3 |
| Item number | .W76 2013 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 978/.02 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wrobel, David M. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Global West, American frontier |
| Medium | [electronic resource] : |
| Remainder of title | travel, empire, and exceptionalism from manifest destiny to the Great Depression / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | David M. Wrobel. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Albuquerque : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | University of New Mexico Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2013. |
| Place of manufacture | (Baltimore, Md. : |
| Manufacturer | Project MUSE, |
| Date of manufacture | 2015) |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (pages cm.) |
| 490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Calvin P. Horn lectures in western history and culture |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "This book examines how travel writers viewed the American West from the age of Manifest Destiny through the Great Depression. In the nineteenth century, the West was often presented as one developing frontier among many; in the twentieth century, travel writers often searched for American frontier distinctiveness"--Provided by publisher"-- |
| Assigning source | Provided by publisher. |
| Summary, etc. | "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, David Wrobel offers a counternarrative to the nation's romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to our history who deserve new attention.Prior to the professionalization of academic disciplines, travel writers found a wide and respectful audience for their reports on history, geography, and the natural world, in addition to reporting on aboriginal cultures before there was such a discipline as anthropology. In recent decades travel writers have not received much respect in the academy, but Wrobel rescues this lively genre, demonstrating that travel writers offered an understanding of the West considerably more complex than the notion of the mythic West promoted to support Manifest Destiny in the nineteenth century and American exceptionalism in the twentieth"-- |
| Assigning source | Provided by publisher. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on print version record. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | West (U.S.) |
| General subdivision | Public opinion. |
| Geographic name | West (U.S.) |
| General subdivision | Historiography. |
| Geographic name | West (U.S.) |
| General subdivision | Description and travel |
| -- | History. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. |
| Source of heading or term | bisacsh |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. |
| Source of heading or term | bisacsh |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | HISTORY / Social History. |
| Source of heading or term | bisacsh |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Travel writing |
| General subdivision | Historiography. |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| Source of term | local |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Project Muse. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Public note | Full text available: |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780826353719/">https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780826353719/</a> |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
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