TY - BOOK AU - Wrobel,David M. ED - Project Muse. TI - Global West, American frontier: travel, empire, and exceptionalism from manifest destiny to the Great Depression T2 - Calvin P. Horn lectures in western history and culture SN - 9780826353719 AV - F595.3 .W76 2013 U1 - 978/.02 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Albuquerque PB - University of New Mexico Press KW - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century KW - bisacsh KW - HISTORY / United States / 19th Century KW - HISTORY / Social History KW - Travel writing KW - Historiography KW - West (U.S.) KW - Public opinion KW - Description and travel KW - History KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "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"--; "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"-- UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780826353719/ ER -