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The American West and Its Interpreters: Essays on Literary History and Historiography
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Unm Press
- Publish Date: May 1st, 2023
- Pages: 304
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.66in - 5.67in - 0.71in - 1.05lb
- EAN: 9780826364456
- Categories: • United States - State & Local - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT• Historiography• American - Regional
About the Author
Etulain, Richard W.: - Richard W. Etulain is a professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico, where he also edited the New Mexico Historical Review (1979-1985 and 1991) and directed the Center for the American West (1989-2001). Etulain served as president at both the Western Literature and Western History associations. He is the author or editor of more than sixty books on the history and cultures of the American West.
Praise for this book
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