"Nugent's study, well illustrated and documented... will become a must for courses on migration history." --Dirk Hoerder, International Migration Review
"A brilliant analysis of a critical chapter of migration history." --Ira Glazier, American Historical Review
"Nugent's work is the ideal--the only--narrative companion to any quantitative analysis of late-nineteenth century population movements in the Atlantic economy." --Journal of Economic History
"In terms of synthesizing existing literature and extending comparisons across boundaries, Nugent offers a shining example...
"Nugent's study, well illustrated and documented... will become a must for courses on migration history." --Dirk Hoerder, International Migration R...
"Those who appreciate the impact of history will be impressed with the selection of articles." --Nebraska History
Designed for survey courses--yet in-depth enough to support intensive discussion--these seventeen classic essays traverse the history of the American West, from women's property rights in Spanish-Mexican California to the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864, from homesteading and mining to the Great Depression and World War II. Provocative and illuminating.
"Those who appreciate the impact of history will be impressed with the selection of articles." --Nebraska History
James Edward Davis Walter T. Nugent Malcolm J. Rohrbough
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Frontier Illinois James E. Davis
"A comprehensive, readable history of this distinctive prairie state before the Civil War.... This deft synthesis of existing knowledge is likely to become the standard modern history of Illinois." Kirkus Reviews
"Davis provides an incisive portrait of prairie society.... A fresh and sophisticated survey of early Illinois." Choice
"O, this is a delightful country " one newly arrived settler wrote to a friend back East. Indeed, as James E. Davis shows, many newcomers found Illinois a hospitable and relatively...
Now in paperback
Frontier Illinois James E. Davis
"A comprehensive, readable history of this distinctive prairie state before the ...
Florida has had many frontiers. Imagination, greed, missionary zeal, disease, war, and diplomacy have created its historical boundaries. Bodies of water, soil, flora and fauna, the patterns of Native American occupation, and ways of colonizing have defined Florida's frontiers. Paul E. Hoffman tells the story of those frontiers and how the land and the people shaped them during the three centuries from 1565 to 1860.
For settlers to La Florida, the American Southeast ca. 1500, better natural and human resources were found on the piedmont and on the western side of Florida's central...
Florida has had many frontiers. Imagination, greed, missionary zeal, disease, war, and diplomacy have created its historical boundaries. Bodies of ...
Acclaimed historian Walter Nugent brings us what is perhaps the most comprehensive and fascinating account to date of the peopling of the American West. In this epic social-demographic history, Nugent explores the populations of the West as they grow, change and intersect from the Paleo-Indians, the Spanish Conquistadors, to displaced Okies, wartime African American immigrants, and all the disparate groups that have made California the most ethnically diverse state in the union. Their tale, in all its complexity, is a tale that surprises, that subverts traditional stereotypes and that...
Acclaimed historian Walter Nugent brings us what is perhaps the most comprehensive and fascinating account to date of the peopling of the American Wes...
