Kniha Three Frontiers Dean L. May

Three Frontiers

Family, Land, and Society in the American West, 1850-1900

Autor: Dean L. May
Jazyk: Angličtina
Väzba: Pevná
Dostupnosť: Skladom u dodávateľa
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This book explores the values and aspirations of early settlers in the American Far West. It compare...

Informácie o knihe

Autor
Jazyk
Angličtina
Väzba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydalo
1994
Stránok
324
EAN
9780521434997
ISBN
0521434998
Enbook ID
02030785
Hmotnosť
640
Rozmery
158 x 236 x 25

Kompletný popis

This book explores the values and aspirations of early settlers in the American Far West. It compares those who settled in the Willamette Valley in the 1840s, the Utah Valley in the 1850s, and the Boise Valley in the 1860s. The Oregon and Utah settlers tried with differing degrees of success to resist the modernizing trends represented by Idaho, but ultimately adopted their individualistic, commercial, and acquisitive values. How did Americans move away from a culture centering on family and kin and from attitudes that valued and protected the land, not for its commercial worth, but as the base of support for future generations? What led to the present tendency to pursue individual pleasure and material well-being at the expense of communal and broader societal well-being? These two questions are central to this comparative study of the three groups who pioneered the Western frontier.

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