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Home and Abroad: The Two Wests of Twentieth-Century United States History
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In the case of oil extraction in the Amazon region of Ecuador since the 1960s, the similarities between petroleum development there and contemporaneous activities in Alaska, America's "last frontier," underscore the profound connections between western development and the role of the United States in international capitalist expansion.Abstract:
Where lies the twentieth-century American West? The question goes beyond simple geography to historical sensibility. Take the case of oil extraction in the Amazon region of Ecuador since the 1960s. The similarities between petroleum development there and contemporaneous activities in Alaska, America's "last frontier," underscore the profound connections between western development and the role of the United States in international capitalist expansion. Many of the processes, people, and institutions that actively shaped theread more
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The Secret War in Mexico: Europe, the United States, and the Mexican Revolution
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Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West. By Donald Worster. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. xii + 292 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-19-505820-8.)
TL;DR: Worster's Under Western Skies as mentioned in this paper provides an introduction to the changing traditions of western historical writing and then demonstrates his own approach through fascinating case studies, such as the struggle by the Lakota to regain ownership of the Black Hills, examining not only the legal history of treaties and court cases but also the importance of Black Hills in Indian religion and the way they have been mismanaged by the U.S. government.
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The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the ways in which ideology and political economy intertwined over time to propel American expansion and empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and show that the interests and beliefs that once sent American troops into Texas and California, or Latin America and East Asia, also propelled American forces into Iraq.
Uncommon Knowledge: A History of Queer New Mexico, 1920s-1980s
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a case study of the effects of gender discrimination on women in Mexico and their relationship with women in the state of New Mexico in the United States.
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Europe and the People Without History
TL;DR: This paper showed that European expansion not only transformed the historical trajectory of non-European societies, but also reconstituted the historical accounts of these societies before European intervention, and asserted that anthropology must pay more attention to history.
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The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century.
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
TL;DR: An American frontier study focusing on the fastest growing city of 19th-century America -Chicago as mentioned in this paper, shows the land as it was when inhabited by Indians and a few white settlers, and the frenzy of development of the meatpacking industry, the grain emporiums and the lumber markets which followed.