The Legacy of Conquest

The Unbroken Past of the American West

By: Patricia Nelson Limerick

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Paperback | 1 January 2006 | Edition Number 1

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The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality; in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here she interprets the stories and the characters in a new way: the trappers, traders, Indians, farmers, oilmen, cowboys, and sheriffs of the Old West "meant business" in more ways than one, and their descendents mean business today.

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"In stripping the frontier of kitsch fantasy, Patricia Limerick has prised us away from an Ivy League model of a land of conquest and open opportunity. She offers instead the earthy, uncomfortable reality of a living west." The Guardian"

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History History of the Americas Warfare & Defence Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Modern History from 1700 to 1900

Acknowkledgments	p. 9
Introduction Closing the Frontier and Opening Western History	p. 17
The Conquerors	p. 33
Empire of Innocence	p. 35
Property Values	p. 55
Denial and Dependence	p. 78
Uncertain Enterprises	p. 97
The Meeting Ground Of Past and Present	p. 134
The Conquerors Meet Their Match	p. 177
The Persistence of Natives	p. 179
America the Borderland	p. 222
Racialism on the Run	p. 259
Mankind the Manager	p. 293
The Burdens of Western American History	p. 322
Notes	p. 351
Further Reading	p. 369
Index	p. 385
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