Why has the American Southwest been celebrated as a place of beauty and history even as it was condemned as a place without any past or, indeed, an inhabitable present? The contributors to this volume all address how and why America's image of the Southwest has evolved. D. W. Meinig once wrote: "The Southwest is a distinctive place to the American mind but a somewhat blurred place on American maps." Actually, it has been a somewhat blurred place even to the mind. The Southwest's physical extremes--urban and rural, tame ...
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Why has the American Southwest been celebrated as a place of beauty and history even as it was condemned as a place without any past or, indeed, an inhabitable present? The contributors to this volume all address how and why America's image of the Southwest has evolved. D. W. Meinig once wrote: "The Southwest is a distinctive place to the American mind but a somewhat blurred place on American maps." Actually, it has been a somewhat blurred place even to the mind. The Southwest's physical extremes--urban and rural, tame and wild, ugly and beautiful, polluted and pure--complicate its image, but with the well-researched and thought-provoking contributions of this volume, the region achieves clearer definition. Generous illustrations help to underscore the authors' points.
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As New in As New dust jacket. 0890966206. This book is like new; no remainder marks. Dustjacket has some slight shelfwear. Inside pages are clean.; Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, published for the University of Texas at; 0.75 x 9.31 x 6.29 Inches; 168 pages.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. CG3-A first edition hardcover book SIGEND by Richard Francaviglia and David Narrett in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping and crease on the edges and corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, some light stains on the page edges, light discoloration and shelf wear. Essays on The Changing Images of the Southwest by Richard Francaviglia, Oakah L. Jones, Marta Weigle, Sylvia Rodriguez, and Karl Doerry. Introduction by David J. Weber. The Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures. 9.25"x6.25", 153 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
