It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own: A New History of the American West by Richard White
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Overview: A centerpiece of the New History of the American West, this book embodies the theme that, as succeeding groups have occupied the American West and shaped the land, they have done so without regard for present inhabitants. Like the cowboy herding the dogies, they have cared little about the cost their activities imposed on others; what has mattered is the immediate benefit they have derived from their transformation of the land.
Drawing on a recent flowering of scholarship on the western environment, western gender relations, minority history, and urban and labor history, as well as on more traditional western sources, Its Your Misfortune and None of My Own is about the creation of the region rather than the vanishing of the frontier.
Richard White tells how the various parts of the Westits distinct environments, its metropolitan areas and vast hinterlands, the various ethnic and racial groups and classesare held together by a series of historical relationships that are developed over time. Widespread aridity and a common geographical location between the Missouri River and the Pacific Ocean would have provided but weak regional ties if other stronger relationships had not been created.
Genre: Non Fiction , History
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