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Webb, W: The Great Plains

By Webb, Walter Prescott

Webb, W: The Great Plains Social Sciences

Webb, W: The Great Plains

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This classic description of the interaction between the vast central plains of America and the people who lived there has, since its first publication in 1931, been one of the most influential, widely known, and controversial works in western history. Arguing that "the Great Plains environment. . .constitutes a geographic unity whose influences have been so powerful as to put a characteristic mark upon everything that survives within its borders," Webb singles out the revolver, barbed wire, and the windmill as evidence of the new phase of civilization required for settlement of that arid, treeless region. Webb draws on history, anthropology, geography, demographics, climatology, and economics to substantiate his thesis that the 98th meridian constituted an institutional fault--comparable to a geological fault--at which "practically every institution that was carried across it was either broken and remade or else greatly altered."
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
525
Release Date:
1981-09-01
Publication Date:
1981-09-01
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0803297025
ISBN13:
9780803297029
Weight:
596 g
Height:
134 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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