Peace and friendship : an alternative history of the American West /
"Detouring from the violent and conflict-ridden mainstream of Western American history, this book spotlights an adjacent face of American frontiers in which peace, if not always also friendship, prevailed--for a time. Not to be confused with "alternate history," a genre whose "wh...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Oxford Academic.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Detouring from the violent and conflict-ridden mainstream of Western American history, this book spotlights an adjacent face of American frontiers in which peace, if not always also friendship, prevailed--for a time. Not to be confused with "alternate history," a genre whose "what if" imaginings move into the realm of fiction and fantasy, this "alternative history" sticks to what happened. It traverses American frontiers from the Appalachians to the Pacific and from the birth of the United States through its first century as a republic, with each chapter focused on a particular locale where peoples previously at odds with one another came together. But instead of encounters that turned grounds dark and bloody, Peace and Friendship explores how common ground was sometimes found and then lost. Featuring famous figures like Daniel Boone, William Clark, and Wyatt Earp, its chapters explain how people overcame their differences and contained violence and why these arrangements did not endure. Its contents also examine the ways in which the alternative histories of these sites have been forgotten or turned into "wishtories" and what lessons we might glean from the legacy of broken concord"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197622797 0197622798 9780197622803 0197622801 9780197622810 019762281X |