The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West

 
The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
by Authors: Patricia Nelson Limerick
Released: April, 1988
ISBN: 0393304973
Paperback

Sales Rank: 95,871
List price: $15.95
Our price: $11.17 (You save: $4.78)
Book > The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West > Customer Reviews:
  Average Customer Rating:

The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West > Customer Review #1:
Standard for New Western History

Limericks writing is vivid and engaging. The organization of her chapters is excellent. She critiques every aspect of the Turner thesis. Her book is/was the opening salvo in the New Western History that looks at the American West as a region instead of a process of frontiers. Limerick seeks to include everyone in her story of the American West, not just white, Anglo-American cowboys and Native Americans. A wonderful book. There is NEW stuff in this book, in that before her few historians of the west looked at women, Asians, Indians from their perspective, blacks, etc. A must read for any student of the American West!

The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West > Customer Review #2:
The continuity of history

Anyone who still believes with Frederick Jackson Turner that the West somehow "closed" in 1898 should read this book. Limerick advances the thesis that the same boom-bust cycles and the same struggles over land, water, and mineral rights that characterized the "Wild West" are continuing to this day. She writes in an engaging style that combines well-told narrative with penetrating analysis.

The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West > Customer Review #3:
This book was hard to follow.

Limerick jumps from decade to decade in this book. I would not suggest this book to anyone. I had to just make myself finish it it was horrible.

 
The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West > Related Products

Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West
The Frontier in American History
The American West: A New Interpretive History
Virgin Land: The American West As Symbol and Myth (Harvard Paperback, Hp 21)
Under an Open Sky: Rethinking Americas Western Past
"Its Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A New History of the American West
Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986
Trails: Toward a New Western History
Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner: "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" and Other Essays
poetry reviews