The Great Plains, Second Edition by Webb, Walter Prescott

The Great Plains, Second Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781496231338)

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The Great Plains, Second Edition by Webb, Walter Prescott

The Great Plains, Second Edition

$35.00
The Great Plains, Second Edition by Webb, Walter Prescott

The Great Plains, Second Edition

$35.00
Format: Paperback
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Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University

This iconic description of the interaction between the vast central plains of the continent and the white Americans who moved there in the mid-nineteenth century has endured as one of the most influential, widely known, and controversial works in western history since its first publication in 1931. Arguing that "the Great Plains environment . . . constitutes a geographic unity whose influences have been so powerful as to put a characteristic mark upon everything that survives within its borders," Walter Prescott Webb identifies the revolver, barbed wire, and the windmill as technological adaptations that facilitated Anglo conquest of the arid, treeless region. Webb draws on history, anthropology, geography, demographics, climatology, and economics in arguing that the 98th Meridian constitutes an institutional fault line at which "practically every institution that was carried across it was either broken and remade or else greatly altered."

This new edition of one of the foundational works of western American history features an introduction by Great Plains historian Andrew R. Graybill and a new index and updated design.


Author: Walter Prescott Webb
ISBN-10: 1496231333
ISBN-13: 9781496231338
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2022
Pages: 632
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.20d
By Walter Prescott Webb
By Walter Prescott Webb
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Walter Prescott Webb (1888-1963) was among the most important and influential historians of the American West. He spent his career at the University of Texas and enjoyed visiting appointments in London and Oxford. Webb was the author of a number of highly provocative books, including The Texas Rangers and The Great Frontier. Andrew R. Graybill is a professor of history and director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. He is the author or editor of four books, including Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910 (Nebraska, 2007).

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