Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier

When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington's Westward Expansion set a new...
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Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier by Billington, Ray Allen

Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier

¥14,059

Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier

¥14,059
Author: Ray Allen Billington
Format: Paperback
Language: English

When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington's Westward Expansion set a new standard for scholarship in western American history, and the book's reputation among historians, scholars, and students grew through four subsequent editions. This abridgment and revision of Billington and Martin Ridge's fifth edition, with a new introduction and additional scholarship by Ridge, as well as an updated bibliography, focuses on the Trans-Mississippi frontier.

Although the text sets out the remarkable story of the American frontier, which became, almost from the beginning, an archetypal narrative of the new American nation's successful expansion, the authors do not forget the social, environmental, and human cost of national expansion. While most Americans take pride in the nation's frontier heritage and its associated myths, they also share that history with others--especially with people of color--in whose collective memories the story of the American west is rendered both dark and painful. Westward Expansion encourages an understanding of American westering that is mindful of the racism and excessive nationalism that frequently marred the Western frontier experience. At the same time, the authors understand a sense of optimism, a profound faith in individuals' own abilities, the willingness to innovate, and an abiding trust in democracy to be the transcendent values of the frontier experience, traits that continue to influence the character of America's people long after the close of the western frontier.



Author: Ray Allen Billington, Martin Ridge
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 08/01/2001
Pages: 456
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.14w x 1.08d
ISBN: 9780826319814

About the Author
Billington, Ray Allen: - Ray Allen Billington (1903-81) trained several generations of western historians and published numerous books on American frontier history, including America's Frontier Heritage (UNM Press).Ridge, Martin: - Martin Ridge is a senior research associate in the Henry E. Huntington Library. He has taught at San Diego State University, Indiana University, and the California Institute of Technology. He is the former editor of the Journal of American History and the past president of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association and Western History Association. He is the author of numerous scholarly and review articles dealing with the American West. He is the coeditor of Histories of the American Frontier.

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