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020			_a9780826353719
020			_z9780826353702 (hardback)
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
050	0	0	_aF595.3 _b.W76 2013
082	0	0	_a978/.02 _223
100	1		_aWrobel, David M.
245	1	0	_aGlobal West, American frontier _h[electronic resource] : _btravel, empire, and exceptionalism from manifest destiny to the Great Depression / _cDavid M. Wrobel.
260			_aAlbuquerque : _bUniversity of New Mexico Press, _c2013. _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (pages cm.)
490	0		_aCalvin P. Horn lectures in western history and culture
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
651		0	_aWest (U.S.) _xPublic opinion.
651		0	_aWest (U.S.) _xHistoriography.
651		0	_aWest (U.S.) _xDescription and travel _xHistory.
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / 19th Century. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / Social History. _2bisacsh
650		0	_aTravel writing _xHistoriography.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780826353719/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c33375 _d33375