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Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860
by
Anne F. Hyde
To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little difference: the United States was just another imperial overlord to be assessed and manipulated. This was not, as Empires, Nations, and Families makes clear, virgin wilderness discovered by virtuous Anglo entrepreneurs. Rather, the United States was a newcomer in a place already complicated by vying empi...more
Hardcover, 628 pages
Published
July 1st 2011
by University of Nebraska Press
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Fantastic! In another Universe, I may have turned out a historian, and in another Universe, there is a version of American history that builds on Hyde's vision of the American West as a place where cultures and nations mingled and mixed instead of being wiped out by a single, dominant political and economic force. This narrative begins with the Louisiana Purchase (with some consideration of what came before) and ends with the start of the Civil War, telling the story not just of nations and cult...more
Look is very well researched and quite interesting. It gives good insights into life on the planes in the west post 1800 This book is a magnificent piece of scholarship and well deserving the Bancroft Prize. Dr. Hyde presents a reality of races merging, clashing, and separating in the West. She follows the Fur Trade and its role in dominating much of the early part of the 19th century in the West. Beyond that, she examines how the West was settled and torn asunder. The books is about families, t...more
This was just named a Finalist for the Pulitzer prize!
Good information but too thick.
Very well written and interesting perspective about how these family empires controlled parts of the West but on very shaky ground.
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