The American West: A New Interpretive History

Download or read book The American West: A New Interpretive History written by Robert V. Hine and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully revised and updated new edition of the classic history of western America The newly revised second edition of this concise, engaging, and unorthodox history of America’s West has been updated to incorporate new research, including recent scholarship on Native American lives and cultures. An ideal text for course work, it presents the West as both frontier and region, examining the clashing of different cultures and ethnic groups that occurred in the western territories from the first Columbian contacts between Native Americans and Europeans up to the end of the twentieth century.