Название: Global West, American Frontier: Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression
Автор: David M. Wrobel
Издательство: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826353703
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 328
Размер: 22,6 МБ
Язык: Английский
This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both European and American travelers' accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville's Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counter narrative to the nation's romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to our history who deserve new attention.