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Author: Francaviglia, Richard and David Narrett, editors, introduction by David J. Weber, Richard Francaviglia, Oakah L. Jones, Marta Weigle, Sylvia Rondríguez & Karl Doerry
ISBN: 9780890966204

by Richard V. Francaviglia (Editor); David E. Narrett (Editor)

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From the publisher

Why has the American Southwest been celebrated as a place of beauty and history even as it was condemned as a place without any past or, indeed, an inhabitable present? The contributors to this volume all address how and why America's image of the Southwest has evolved.

D. W. Meinig once wrote: "The Southwest is a distinctive place to the American mind but a somewhat blurred place on American maps." Actually, it has been a somewhat blurred place even to the mind. The Southwest's physical extremes--urban and rural, tame and wild, ugly and beautiful, polluted and pure--complicate its image, but with the well-researched and thought-provoking contributions of this volume, the region achieves clearer definition. Generous illustrations help to underscore the authors' points.

From the rear cover

The American Southwest has been variously celebrated as a place of enormous beauty with a sense of deep historical roots and condemned as a place without any past or, indeed, an inhabitable present. The extremes of southwestern life modern and traditional, urban and rural, tame and wild, ugly and beautiful, polluted and pure - pervade the region. How America has come to view the Southwest and its distinctive images - and why it has formed these views - is the subject of this intriguing interdisciplinary book.

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Title Essays on the Changing Images of the Southwest
Author Richard V. Francaviglia (Editor); David E. Narrett (Editor)
Binding Hardback
Edition First Edition
Pages 168
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas, U.S.A.
Publication date 1994
Illustrated Yes
Features Illustrated, Maps
ISBN 9780890966204 / 0890966206
Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
Dimensions 9.31 x 6.29 x 0.75 in (23.65 x 15.98 x 1.91 cm)
Reading level 1540
Themes
- Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
Category History - U.S.
Library of Congress subjects Southwest, New - Description and travel, Southwest, New - In literature
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 94018599
Dewey Decimal Code 979

About the author

RICHARD FRANCAVIGLIA is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington and director of its Center for Greater Southwestern Studies and the History of Cartography. David Narrett is also an associate professor at the University of Texas at Arlington.

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