Keywords:
West (U.S.) -- Race relations -- History
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Terminology -- Introduction: Whiteness and the Making of the American West -- PART I: From Dumping Ground to Refuge: Imagining the White Man's West, 1803-1924 -- 1. "For Its Incorporation in Our Union": The Louisiana Territory and the Conundrum of Western Expansion -- 2. A Climate of Failure or One "Unrivaled, Perhaps, in the World": Fear and Health in the West -- 3. "The Ablest and Most Valuable Fly Rapidly Westward": Climate, Racial Vigor, and the Advancement of the West, 1860-1900 -- 4. Indians Not Immigrants: Charles Fletcher Lummis, Frank Bird Linderman, and the Complexities of Race and the Complexities of Race and Ethnicity in America -- PART II: Creating and Defending the White Man's West -- 5. The Politics of Whiteness and Western Expansion, 1848-80 -- 6. "Our Climate and Soil Is Completely Adapted to Their Customs": Whiteness, Railroad Promotion, and the Settlement of the Great Plains -- 7. Unwelcome Saints: Whiteness, Mormons, and the Limits of Success -- 8. Enforcing the White Man's West through Violence in Texas, California, and Beyond -- Conclusion: The Limits and Limitations of Whiteness -- Bibliography -- Index.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (323 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781607323969
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=4415137
DDC:
305.800978
Language:
English
Note:
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