Conquests and Consequences introduces students to the history of the American West by examining key questions about the identity of the region.
- Discusses how diverse societies and empires have shaped and reshaped the American West over the centuries
- Looks at the points at which the West has functioned as a colony, and its transition to functioning as a region
- Examines how the concept of frontier functions in the West
- Illustrated with numerous maps, images, and photographs, in partnership with the Buffalo Bill Historical Center
Chapter 1: Introductions
Chapter 2: The First West: Native Peoples
Chapter 3: West is North: The Spanish Empire
Chapter 4: West is South: The French Empire
Chapter 5: The English Empire: Turner's First War
Chapter 6: Growing Pains
Chapter 7: Putting Down Roots
Chapter 8: This Land is Our Land?
Chapter 9: Last Frontiers
CHapter 10: The Progressive Era
Chapter 11: From Boom to Bust
Chapter 12: Depression to Cold War
Chapter 13: The Metropolitan West to the 1980s
Chapter 14: From the Eighties to the new Millennium
Chapter 15: Into the Future and Back to the Past
“The new interpretation makes the twentieth century in all its multicultural and ecological elements a part of Western history rather than an afterthought once the fronter closes. . . .  Conquests & Consequences is well-written and holds a reader’s interest even as the narrative races across the centuries.” –Journal of the West
“Higham and KaterblÓ_
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