The Great Plains

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.  

ISBN:	9781496231338
Publisher:	Nebraska
Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Published date:	01 Aug 2022
DEWEY:	978
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xli, 586
Weight:	858g
Height:	154mm
Width:	227mm
Spine width:	38mm

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