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Over the edge remapping the American West
Record details
- ISBN: 9780520920118 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0520920112 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0585289360 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780585289366 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0520211480 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0520211499 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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1 online resource (399 pages) : illustrations, maps - Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1999.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Published in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | pt. 1. Imagining the West. Seeing and being seen : tourism in the American West / Patricia Nelson Limerick -- Toga! Toga! / Blake Allmendinger -- Sacred and profane : Mae West's (re)presentation of western religion / Jill Watts -- "I think our romance is spoiled," or, crossing genres : California history in Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The squatter and the Don / Anne E. Goldman -- A westerner in search of "negro-ness" : region and race in the writing of Arna Bontemps / Douglas Flamming -- pt. 2. Crossing boundaries. "Domestic" life in the diggings : the southern mines in the California gold rush / Susan Lee Johnson -- Making men in the West : the coming of age of Miles Cavanaugh and Martin Frank Dunham / Mary Murphy -- Changing woman : maternalist politics and "racial rehabilitation" in the U.S. West / Karen Anderson -- Mobility, women, nd the West / Virginia Scharff -- Plague in Los Angeles, 1924 : ethnicity and typicality / William Deverell -- The Tapia-Saiki incident : interethnic conflict and Filipino responses to the anti-Filipino exclusion movement / Arleen de Vera -- Race, gender, and the privileges of property : on the significance of miscegenation law in the U.S. West / Peggy Pascoe -- American Indian blood quantum requirements : blood is thicker than family / Melissa L. Meyer. -- pt. 3. Creating community. Crucifixion, slavery, and death : the Hermanos Penitentes of the Southwest / Ramón A. Gutiérrez -- "Pongo mi demanda" : challenging patriarchy in Mexican Los Angeles, 1830-1850 / Miroslava Chavez -- Japanese American women and the creation of urban Nisei culture in the 1930s / Valerie J. Matsumoto -- Competing communities at work : Asian Americans, European Americans, and native Alaskans in the Pacific Northwest, 1938-1947 / Chris Friday -- Perceiving, experiencing and expressing the sacred : an indigenous Southern Californian view / Louise V. Jeffredo-Warden -- Dead West : ecocide in Marlboro country / Mike Davis -- La frontera del norte / Jesús Martínez-Saldaña. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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