1st Edition
The American West and the World Transnational and Comparative Perspectives
By Janne Lahti
Copyright 2019
198 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
198 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
The American West and the World provides a synthetic introduction to the transnational history of the American West. Drawing from the insights of recent scholarship, Janne Lahti recenters the history of the U.S. West in the global contexts of empires and settler colonialism, discussing exploration, expansion, migration, violence, intimacies, and ideas. Lahti examines established subfields of... Read more
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The American West as Global History
Part I Global Convergences
- Shared Worlds
- Settler Revolutions
- Violence
- Intimacies of Empires
- Imperial Eyes
Part II Global Circulations
Epilogue
Index
Biography
Janne Lahti is Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and the editor of American Studies in Scandinavia.
"The American West and the World is a smart, well-written, nicely structured, innovative, insightful, and thoroughly engaging synthesis of a generation of recent scholarship that globally contextualizes the American western past."
David Wrobel, Professor of History, University of Oklahoma, U.S.A.
