The Great Plains, Second Edition Webb Walter Prescott
The Great Plains, Second Edition Webb Walter Prescott Published in Cooperation with the William P. Arguing that "the Great Plains environment . . . Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern…
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The Great Plains, Second Edition Webb Walter Prescott
Published in Cooperation with the William P. Arguing that "the Great Plains environment . . . Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist UniversityThis 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.
Webb draws on history, anthropology, geography, demographics, climatology, and economics in arguing that 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.
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