Global West, American Frontier: Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression belle epoque From Sydney to London

From Sydney to London

” She sheds light on the activists who are fighting corporate maneuvers to convert the life-sustaining resource of water into more gold for the elites and uses her knowledge of science and society to outline the emergence of corporate culture and the historical erosion of communal water rights

sharp book—Taylor’s debut collection—documents a deep authority on the unavoidable confusion of being young

and from interviews with current and former operatives

including neoclassical economics

Global West, American Frontier: Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression belle epoque From Sydney to LondonAuthor Contributor(s): Wrobel, David M. Publisher: UNM Press Date: 10 1 2014 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW Looking at both European and American travelers' accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville's Democracy in America to William Least Heat Moon's Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counternarrative to the nation's romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long overlooked authors, lively and perceptive