WEST. - Social Science（社会科学） 1

Elegantly assembles the environmental, social, cultural, political, and economic history of the Great Plains in the 19th century.続きを見る

Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, "The Decline of the West" has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about books of our time. A sweeping account of Western culture by a historian of legendary intellect, it is an astonishingly informed, forcefully eloquent, thrilli……続きを見る

Documents not only the stories that Lewis and Clark offered about their aroad across the continent, a but also the large and important stories by and about the Native peoples whose trails they followed and whose lands they described in their journals.続きを見る

Historian Richardson ties the North and West into the post-Civil War story that usually focuses narrowly on the South, encompassing the significant people and events of this profoundly important era and weaving together the experiences of real individuals.続きを見る

Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Crown Publishers in 2009"--T.p. verso.続きを見る

Cities rather than individual pioneers have been the driving force in the settlement and economic development of the western half of North America. Throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries western urban centers served as starting points for conquest and settlement. As these……続きを見る

In 1859, the American Fur Company set out on what would then be the longest steamboat trip in North American history--a headline-making, 6,200-mile trek along the Missouri River from St. Louis to Fort Benton in present-day Montana, and back again. Steamboats West is an adventure story that navigat……続きを見る

Examines the historical debate surrounding Texas's identity: investigates whether Texas, with its heritage of slavery, segregation, and cotton production, is 'Southern' or, with its cowboys, cattle drives, mountains, and desert, is 'Western'"--Provided by publisher.続きを見る