What does it mean to live in the West today? Do people tend to
identify with states, with regions, or with the larger West? This
book examines the development of regional identity in the American
West, demonstrating that it is a regionally diverse entity made up
of many different wests--Great Plains, Southwest, Rocky Mountains,
and more--in which American regionalism finds its fullest
expression.
These fourteen original essays tell how a sense of place emerged
among residents of various regions and how a sense of those places
was developed by people outside of them. Wrobel and Steiner first
offer a compelling overview of the West's regional nature; then
thirteen other rising or renowned scholars-from history, American
Studies, geography, and literature-tell how regional consciousness
formed among inhabitants of particular regions.
All of the essays address the larger issue of the centrality of
place in determining social and cultural forms and individual and
collective identities. Some focus on race and culture as the
primary influences on regional consciousness while others emphasize
environmental and economic factors or the influence of literature.
Some even examine western regionalism in areas that lie beyond the
West as it has traditionally been conceived. Each of the
contributors believes that where a people live helps determine what
they are, and they write not only about the many wests within the
larger West, but also about the constant state of flux in which
regionalism exists.
Many books speak of the West as a place, but few others deal
with the West's different places. Many Wests presents a vision of
the West that reflects both the common heritage and unique
character of each major subregion, building on the revisionist
impulse of the last decade to help redirect New Western History
toward an appreciation of regional diversity and integrate
scholarship in the regional subfields. It is a book for everyone
who lives in, studies, or loves the West, for it confirms that it
is home to very different peoples, economies, histories-and
regions.
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