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Alaska's place in the West : from the last frontier to the last great wilderness by Willis, Roxanne is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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From Sarah Palin's surprising rise to political stardom to recurring environmental battles over oil drilling in the arctic and public work projects like the Bridge to Nowhere, the remote state of Alaska continues to occupy center stage in the national spotlight. Yet for most Americans the history of this sparsely populated region remains a vast unknown. Roxanne Willis takes readers behind common and simplistic representations of the state to explore the rich history and extreme diversity of a land that cannot easily be pigeonholed into typical American conceptions about place Alaska's story is usually confined to regional history books, and in many American history texts, the state simply disappears after the Klondike gold rush. Willis's book marks the first comprehensive examination of Alaskan development schemes from 1890 to the present, connecting these plans to the changing priorities of American culture and politics. She examines competing definitions of Alaskafrom a "Last Frontier" meant to be exploited to a "Last Wilderness" to be protected at all costsand explains how the contemporary Alaskan landscape is a result of this ongoing struggle to define this mythic state's place

Author

Willis, Roxanne

Publisher

Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780700617487

Subjects

Anthropology, Social_sciences