The American West and the World

Transnational and Comparative Perspectives
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-18733-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 448 g

The American West and the World provides a synthetic introduction to the transnational history of the American West. Drawing from the insights of recent scholarship, Janne Lahti recenters the history of the U.S. West in the global contexts of empires and settler colonialism, discussing exploration, expansion, migration, violence, intimacies, and ideas. Lahti examines established subfields of Western scholarship, such as borderlands studies and transnational histories of empire, as well as relatively unexplored connections between the West and geographically nonadjacent spaces. Lucid and incisive, The American West and the World firmly situates the historical West in its proper global context.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lahti, Janne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The American West as Global History

Part I Global Convergences

- Shared Worlds

- Settler Revolutions

Part II Global Circulations

- Violence

- Intimacies of Empires

- Imperial Eyes

Epilogue

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Janne Lahti is Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and the editor of American Studies in Scandinavia.