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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
1496233581
ISBN-13
9781496233585
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26057273590
Product Key Features
Book Title
Continental Reckoning : the American West in the Age of Expansion
Number of Pages
704 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / 19th Century, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Publication Year
2023
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Book Series
History of the American West Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.9 in
Item Weight
42.5 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2022-013275
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Elliott West's Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion was described by the [Bancroft Prize] jury as 'a searing narrative explaining how the republic became a transcontinental nation,' through a 'vast racial, social and political reordering' that redefined citizenship and the relationship between government, industry, and the people."-- New York Times, "Elliott West has delivered a big book on a big topic: a history of the trans-Mississippi West from the 1840s to the late nineteenth century . . . . Despite its nearly six hundred pages, Continental Reckoning is consistently engaging. As West has demonstrated in a shelf of important books, he has a discerning eye for the telling detail. . . . The book is a pleasure to read."--John Mack Faragher, Western Historical Quarterly, "A truly extraordinary piece of work, by any measure and in every respect. Continental Reckoning is also, like all of Elliott West's productions, beautifully written. Of the major Western historians of his generation, he wields--by far--the most felicitous pen. And in this book, as ever, he's got a talent for the well-turned phrase. Likewise, West lards the narrative with telling details. This book will be pored over by scholars and savored by specialists and lay readers alike. It will surely be the go-to study of this epoch for years to come."--Andrew R. Graybill, author of The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West, "Westerners will do well to have this new anthology handy as a standard reference work of the expansionist period."--John Monnett, Denver Westerners Roundup, "With style, clarity, and exquisite examples, Elliott West has obliterated our national just-so story in which the West just naturally appeared. Using newly confident governments and powerful technologies, Americans mowed down some people and built up others to create a very particular nineteenth-century West. It's quite a story."--Anne F. Hyde, author of Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West, "Elliott West has written an engaging and innovative synthesis that will be of interest to all readers of history. It is a gift to anyone who writes lectures; teachers will find illuminating examples, useful metaphors, and an extraordinary amount of data to wield in the service of helping students make sense of the middle decades of the nineteenth century."--Amy Kohout, Missouri Historical Review, "A masterly crafted and comprehensive narrative of how our nation's history unfolded across the American West, and how the West, no less than the Civil War, profoundly shaped the rise of modern America."--Pulitzer Prize committee, "Readers who appreciate history and are privileged by having been born and lived in the Western United States should plan to allocate an appropriate portion of their remaining time to perusal of Continental Reckoning . They will be amazed by the impact which our region has exerted upon the development of both our own country and the rest of today's global community."--J. Kemper Campbell, Lincoln Journal Star, "The West is a big canvas. West uses brush strokes small and large to depict his engaging and thought-provoking perspective."--Tom Carpenter, RoundUp Magazine, "Vivid and compelling, Continental Reckoning is a sweeping history of how a dynamic region was made and remade in the mid-nineteenth century. . . . Writing with great insight and wit, Elliott West proves once again why he is one of the preeminent historians of a region that has so often been the focus of national aspirations and anxieties. Continental Reckoning is an authoritative volume, a must-read for anyone interested in western and American history."--Megan Kate Nelson, author of Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America, " Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion is a big book, in size, scope, and intellectual creativity. . . . Elliott West's careful organization, elegant writing, and abundance of excerpts from letters, newspapers and other documents keeps the narrative grounded in personal stories and experiences that will appeal to scholars, students, and general readers alike."--Renee M. Laegreid, Annals of Wyoming, "By the final chapter of Continental Reckoning , the reader should pause and realize they have read one of the most important contributions to the American historiography published in the past half-century. Historians of America and the West will recognize that Elliott West, one of the most respected scholars in his field the past 40 years, has accomplished a great deal in his career, but will remember Continental Reckoning as his master work, truly a magnum opus of his highly lauded scholarly career."--Stuart Rosebrook, True West, "A comprehensive, lucid, and often surprising history of western settlement in America."-- Kirkus Reviews , starred, "Encyclopedic in its coverage, wonderfully written, full of revealing detail, shrewd and funny in its analysis, Continental Reckoning will become the standard work on the creation of the American West. Elliott West remains astute and fair in covering a place and period often reduced to ideology and polemic. No one knows the nineteenth-century American West better than he does."--Richard White, author of The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896, "Encyclopedic in its coverage, wonderfully written, full of revealing details, shrewd and funny in its analysis, Continental Reckoning will become the standard work on the creation of the American West. Elliott West remains astute and fair in covering a place and period often reduced to ideology and polemic. No one knows the nineteenth-century American West better than he does."--Richard White, author of The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896, "Elliott West's Continental Reckoning vividly shows the importance of looking at the American West when studying the Civil War era. West makes sweeping arguments crucial to advancing Civil War West historiography, and his accessible writing style also makes the read enjoyable for the general public interested in the American West or nineteenth-century U.S. history more broadly. Rather than seeing the West as a "safety valve" for the East, Continental Reckoning demonstrates how the region became inextricably linked to the rise of the modern and robust U.S. nation state."--John R. Legg, Civil War Monitor, "Vivid and compelling, Continental Reckoning is a sweeping history of how a dynamic region was made and remade in the mid-nineteenth century. . . . Writing with great insight and wit, Elliott West proves once again why he is one of the preeminent historians of a region that has so often been the focus of national aspirations and anxieties. Continental Reckoning is an authoritative volume and a must-read for anyone interested in western and American history."--Megan Kate Nelson, author of Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America, " Continental Reckoning is massive and brilliantly constructed, scholarly and literary, meant to be read beyond academic conferences by a public that--in these contentious times--needs to understand America's past."--David Luhrssen, Shepherd Express, "This is a wonderfully ambitious contribution to western history. The book displays a remarkable grasp and synthesis of a wide range of literature. It also provides a one volume "Best of West," as in Elliott West, that brings together his finest contributions to western history in a thoughtful, wise lesson that can come only from an accomplished historian at the top of his game."--Todd M. Kerstetter, Nebraska History, "Westerners will do well to have this new anthology handy as a standard reference work of the expansionist period."--John Monnett, Denver Posse of Westerners, "With its scope, sophistication, and engaging prose, this marvelous book deserves wide readership."--Sherry L. Smith, South Dakota History
Dewey Decimal
978.02
Table Of Content
Contents List of Illustrations List of Maps Series Editor's Introduction, by Richard Etulain Prelude: 773,510,680 Acres Acknowledgments Part 1. Unsettling America 1. The Great Coincidence 2. Division and Multiplication 3. Letting Blood 4. The Horse and the Hammer 5. Conquest in Stutter-Step 6. Carnal Property 7. The Fluid West 8. Continental Reckoning 9. Civil War and the "Indian Problem" Part 2. Things Come Together 10. Iron Bands and Tongues of Fire 11. Connections Real and Imagined 12. Maps 13. The "Science of Man" and the American Sublime 14. The World's Convention 15. Crew Cultures, Cribs and Schoolhouses, Women on the Fringe Part 3. Worked into Being 16. Cattle and the New America 17. Wind, Fever, and Indians Unhorsed 18. Breaking the Land 19. Domination and Extinction 20. When the West Turned Inside Out 21. Legal Wrestling, the Land Convulsed 22. The Final Undoing 23. Creating the West Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Elliott West lays out the main events and developments that together describe and explain the emergence of the American West and situates the birth of the West in the broader narrative of American history between 1848 and 1880., Finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in History Winner of Columbia University's 2024 Bancroft Prize in American History Winner of the 2024 Caughey Western History Prize Winner of the 2024 Spur Award Named a Best Civil War Book of 2023 by Civil War Monitor In Continental Reckoning renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the American West and its vital role in the transformation of the nation. In the 1840s, by which time the United States had expanded to the Pacific, what would become the West was home to numerous vibrant Native cultures and vague claims by other nations. Thirty years later it was organized into states and territories and bound into the nation and world by an infrastructure of rails, telegraph wires, and roads and by a racial and ethnic order, with its Indigenous peoples largely dispossessed and confined to reservations. Unprecedented exploration uncovered the West's extraordinary resources, beginning with the discovery of gold in California within days of the United States acquiring the territory following the Mexican-American War. As those resources were developed, often by the most modern methods and through modern corporate enterprise, half of the contiguous United States was physically transformed. Continental Reckoning guides the reader through the rippling, multiplying changes wrought in the western half of the country, arguing that these changes should be given equal billing with the Civil War in this crucial transition of national life. As the West was acquired, integrated into the nation, and made over physically and culturally, the United States shifted onto a course of accelerated economic growth, a racial reordering and redefinition of citizenship, engagement with global revolutions of science and technology, and invigorated involvement with the larger world. The creation of the West and the emergence of modern America were intimately related. Neither can be understood without the other. With masterful prose and a critical eye, West presents a fresh approach to the dawn of the American West, one of the most pivotal periods of American history.
LC Classification Number
F594.W27 2023
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