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Under Western Skies Av Donald (hall Distinguished Professor Of American History Hall Distinguished Professor Of American History University Of Kansas)

For decades, the story of the American West has been told as a glorious tale of conquest and rugged individualism - the triumph of progress. But recently, a new school of historians has challenged this view, creating what is known as the ''new western history'', an approach that gives a central role to the environment, native peoples, and the concentration of power in the hands of a few. Foremost among these historians is Donald Worster.In Worster''s writings, the western past emerges not as a march of Manifest Destiny but rather as an unfolding relationship between humankind and nature.In Under Western Skies, Worster provides an eloquent introduction to the changing traditions of western historical writing and then demonstrates his own approach through fascinating case studies. For example, he takes a hard look at the struggle by the Lakota to regain ownership of the Black Hills, examining not only the legal history of treaties and court cases but also the importance of the Black Hill

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