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The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
Patricia Nelson Limerick
出版W. W. Norton & Company, 2011-02-07
主題History / United States / 19th Century
ISBN03930788099780393078800
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Kk1PMykiIE4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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"Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard White

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.