Product Description

Gathering the best of essays produced at a conference at Utah State University, this collections aims to produce compelling assessment of the newest Western historiography.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1261434 in Books
• Published on: 1996-10-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Review

"This collection is an essential component of the field and points to all the exciting work that has been generated in the last decade. The collection may fuel future debates that will continue to transform historical interpretations of the American West well into the twenty-first century."--New Mexico Historical Review
"...the volume offers a set of fresh but varied approaches which together illuminate the healthy reality that the field's strength comes from its diversity."--Utah Historical Quarterly
"Serious scholars should welcome this thoughtful and well-documented collection of articles...Undoubtedly, the book also will provoke future comment and discussion that can only help sharpen our understanding about a process that was once trivialized in popular culture."--Kansas History
"Any student of the history of the United States West will find this work valuable for becoming acquainted with the major treatises in the many subfields of the West. A New Significance is also deserving of inclusion as a text for seminars and undergraduate classes in the American West."--The Chronicles of Oklahoma
"The collection is a valuable contribution to both 'western' and American history."--American Historical Review

About the Author

Clyde A. Milner II is Professor of History at Utah State University. Editor of the Western Historical Quarterly, he is co-editor of The Oxford History of the American West (1994).