The American West and Its Interpreters
304 pages, 6 x 9
Paperback
Release Date:01 May 2023
ISBN:9780826364456
The American West and Its Interpreters
Essays on Literary History and Historiography
University of New Mexico Press
Distinguished historian Richard W. Etulain brings together a generous selection of essays from his sixty-year career as a specialist on the US West in this essential volume. Each essay provides an invaluable overview of the rise of western literary history and historiography--including insightful evaluations of individual historians--revealing summaries of regional literature and discussions of western stories yet to be told. Together these writings furnish readers with useful considerations of important subjects about the American West. All those interested in the American West and its interpreters will find these illuminative moments of literary history and historiography especially appealing.
Richard Etulain is one of the most significant interpreters of Western history, and especially its literary and cultural history, of the past half-century. To gather his essays, old and new, in one volume is a great contribution.' Michael S. Green, author of Nevada: A History of the Silver State
An important topic masterfully executed by the leading authority in the dual fields of literary history and historiography.' David V. Holtby, author of Lest We Forget: World War I and New Mexico
Richard W. Etulain is a professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico, where he also edited the New Mexico Historical Review and directed the Center for the American West (1989-2001). Etulain served as president at both the Western Literature and Western History associations, and he is the author or editor of more than sixty books on the history and cultures of the American West.
Preface
Chapter One. Transitions in Western Historiography
Chapter Two. The American Literary West and Its Interpreters: The Rise of a New Historiography
Chapter Three. Shifting Interpretations of Western American Cultural History
Chapter Four. The Twentieth-Century American West: A New Historiographical Frontier
Chapter Five. Research Opportunities in Twentieth-Century Western Cultural History
Chapter Six. After Turner: The Western Historiography of Frederic Logan Paxson
Chapter Seven. Earl Pomeroy: Reorienting Western History
Chapter Eight. Inventing the Pacific Northwest: Novelists and the Region's History
Chapter Nine. Western Stories for the Next Generation
Chapter Ten. Beyond Conflict, Toward Complexity: New Views of the American West
Chapter Eleven. Research Opportunities in Western History
Poll: The Most Influential Western Historians
Notes
American West Historiography: Books and Essays
Chapter One. Transitions in Western Historiography
Chapter Two. The American Literary West and Its Interpreters: The Rise of a New Historiography
Chapter Three. Shifting Interpretations of Western American Cultural History
Chapter Four. The Twentieth-Century American West: A New Historiographical Frontier
Chapter Five. Research Opportunities in Twentieth-Century Western Cultural History
Chapter Six. After Turner: The Western Historiography of Frederic Logan Paxson
Chapter Seven. Earl Pomeroy: Reorienting Western History
Chapter Eight. Inventing the Pacific Northwest: Novelists and the Region's History
Chapter Nine. Western Stories for the Next Generation
Chapter Ten. Beyond Conflict, Toward Complexity: New Views of the American West
Chapter Eleven. Research Opportunities in Western History
Poll: The Most Influential Western Historians
Notes
American West Historiography: Books and Essays
