Free Download Steffen Wöll, "The West and the Word: Imagining, Formatting, and Ordering the American West in Nineteenth-Century Cultural Discourse "
English | ISBN: 3110690004 | 2020 | 320 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 90 MB
Western expansion in North America has mainly been described as either a linear sequence energized by nineteenth-century nation-building processes at a moving frontier, or as the practice of settler colonialism and its exploitation of resources and displacement of nonwhite peoples. This book suggests that shifting the focus from this binary pattern towards spatial imaginations and spatialization processes-a new theoretical framework developed at