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A concise edition of the authors' definitive history of the
American West, updated and rewritten for a popular audience "From
the Caribbean to Canada and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, this
marvelous survey spotlights the unexpected twists and turns that
occurred when peoples met and mingled and how from these cultural
encounters emerged today's American West. Hine and Faragher find in
our frontier history the key to 'our common past' and a 'blueprint
for our common future.'"-Stephen Aron, Department of History, UCLA
Published in 2000 to critical acclaim, The American West: A New
Interpretive History quickly became the standard in college history
classrooms. Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher here offer a
concise edition of their classic text, freshly updated. Lauded for
their lively and elegant writing, the authors provide a grand
survey of the colorful history of the American West, from the first
contacts between Native Americans and Europeans to the beginning of
the twenty-first century. Frontiers introduces the diverse peoples
and cultures of the American West and explores how men and women of
different ethnic groups were affected when they met, mingled, and
often clashed. Hine and Faragher present the complexities of the
American West-as frontier and region, real and imagined, old and
new. Showcasing the distinctive voices and experiences of frontier
characters, they explore topics ranging from early exploration to
modern environmentalism, drawing expansively from a wide range of
sources. With four galleries of fascinating illustrations drawn
from Yale University's premier Collection of Western Americana,
some published here for the first time, this book will be treasured
by every reader with an interest in the unique saga of the American
West.
When it was first published under the title, Edward Kern and
American Expansion, Ray Allen Billington called this book ""one of
the most readable, pleasant, exciting books about the West that I
have ever known,"" and Allen Nevins called it ""a contribution of
the first importance to Western History."" This absorbing account
has become a classic, indispensable to understanding America's
inexorable drive westward to the Pacific - and beyond. This second
edition provides a new preface, additional maps and illustrations,
and a revised bibliographical essay. In 1845, Edward Meyer Kern, a
native Philadelphia and a promising young painter, joined John
Charles Fremont on his Third Expedition to the West. Kern would
serve as the famed explorer's artist, topographer, and
cartographer. On the arduous journey through Nevada to Monterey, he
mapped routes that the settlers would follow west. When the
expedition became embroiled in the struggle for California and the
United States went to war against Mexico, Kern was placed in
command of Fort Sutter. Through all the turmoil, he continued to
paint, producing remarkable scenes of America's western
territories. Kern persuaded his brothers Benjamin and Richard to
join him on Fremont's disastrous Fourth Expedition to seek a
railroad route to the Pacific. Later Edward served in the U.S. Navy
on the Ringgold-Rodgers and Brooke expeditions to Japan, Siberia,
and various Pacific islands and helped prepare the first accurate
charts of the sealanes to China. His enthusiasm, dedication, and
skill with pen and brush helped Kern elevate the art of American
exploration.
Behind the commune movement today lies an impulse for a simpler,
less harried existence that has its roots deep in American history.
During the last hundred years, California has contributed to the
Utopian heritage more colonies than any other American state. From
varied backgrounds—religious, secular, co-operative, socialistic,
Theosophical, Marxian—each new society experimented with
marriage, the raising of children, education, work, religion, or
government.
A fully revised and updated new edition of the classic history of
western America The newly revised second edition of this concise,
engaging, and unorthodox history of America's West has been updated
to incorporate new research, including recent scholarship on Native
American lives and cultures. An ideal text for course work, it
presents the West as both frontier and region, examining the
clashing of different cultures and ethnic groups that occurred in
the western territories from the first Columbian contacts between
Native Americans and Europeans up to the end of the twentieth
century.
When Robert Hine's daughter, Elene, first showed signs of
unhappiness as a little girl, no one dreamed she would grow up to
have a serious personality disorder. As an early "baby boomer,"
Elene reached adolescence and young womanhood in the midst of the
counterculture years. Her father, a respected professor of American
history at the University of California, shares the story of his
family's struggle to keep Elene on track and functional, to see her
through her troubles with delusions, medication, and eventually to
help her raise her own children.
Candid in its portrayal of the suffering Elene and her parents
endured and the stumbling efforts of doctors and hospitals, Hine's
story is also generous and inspiring. In spite of unimaginable
difficulties, Elene and her father preserved their relationship and
survived.
"My daughter has given me permission to go ahead with the
effort, �but� I know she would react quite differently to many of
the events. Where I felt sadness and dejection, she very likely
felt release and exultation. Where I felt helplessness, she very
likely felt in happy control. Where I saw confusion and delusion,
she may well have seen purpose and steadiness. This is not the
story she would tell. It is solely mine, solely the viewpoint of
one man, solely a father's feelings about his daughter."--from
Robert Hine's Preface to "Broken Glass"
Robert Hine knew he was going blind. Yet he finished graduate
school, became a history professor, and wrote books about the
American West. Then, nearly fifty, Hine lost his vision completely.
Fifteen years later, a risky operation restored partial vision,
returning Hine to the world of the sighted. 'The trauma seemed
instructive enough' for him to begin a journal. That journal is the
heart of Second Sight, a sensitively written account of Hine's
journey into darkness and out again.
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