Peace and Friendship: An Alternative History of the American West

ISBN-13: 9780197622780 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 312 str.

Stephen Aron

Recenzje

Peace and Friendship is a brave book that stands apart in its focus on those moments of frontier compromise and comity (however fleeting) that have typically been overlooked or dismissed, especially since the emergence of the New Western History of the 1980s.Steve Aron has deftly gathered a handful of famous and unfamiliar episodesspanning an enormous stretch of time and space, from the Ohio Valley to the Great Plains to the Pacific Northwestto tell a story that is more layered and complex than the now-standard narrative emphasizing relentless conquest and decline.

O autorze

Stephen Aron is Professor Emeritus of History at UCLA and President and CEO of the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles. He is the author of The American West: A Very Short Introduction, How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay and American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State, the co-author of Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present, and the co-editor of Trading Cultures: The Worlds of Western Merchants.