Paper Trails: The U.S. Post and the Making of the American West by Cameron Blevins

2022 ◽  
Vol 125 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-325
Author(s):  
Dan K. Utley
Keyword(s):  
American West ◽  
The U.S

Plotting Maidens and Traitors

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Greyser
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
American West ◽  
Land Law ◽  
Mexican War ◽  
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins ◽  
Dawes Act ◽  
Stock Character ◽  
Individual Ownership ◽  
Sarah Winnemucca ◽  
The U.S

This chapter maps sympathy’s place in the emplotment of what became known as the “New Southwest” after the U.S.–Mexican War. The chapter reads sympathy in the work of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, who opposed U.S. settlers plotting out the American West. In Life Among the Piutes, Hopkins countered the proposals that would eventually become the Dawes Act of 1887, which prescribed allotment (parceling land for tribesmembers’ individual ownership) and severalty (stripping Native Americans of tribal citizenship). She guides Anglo readers in understanding “love thy neighbor as thyself” as a principle best expressed from far away. After Gwin’s Land Law of 1851, de Burton lost a fortune defending her family’s rancho against U.S. squatters. In The Squatter and the Don, she inverts the stock character of the “sad” Mexicano to associate U.S. Americans with tears and grief through the figures of the white railroad baron, corrupt lawyer, and settler citizen.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Jessica M. Kim
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
American West ◽  
Global City ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
City Regions ◽  
Urban Elites ◽  
Informal Empire ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The City ◽  
The U.S

This introduction outlines how, following the Civil War, Los Angeles city boosters and capitalists built what would become the American West’s most important city by tying their region to the exploitation of Mexican labor and Mexican natural resources. They followed a template often used by urban boosters, particularly in cities in the American West, who turned to the surrounding countryside with investment schemes to fuel personal fortunes and municipal growth. At the heart of these plans were cities or urban cores. Urban elites considered the corpus that surrounded them as their hinterland or periphery. In Los Angeles, these plans for growth also assumed imperial and transnational dimensions. Urban promoters argued for “taking in” territories in neighboring Mexico. In foregrounding international urban development in the American West and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, this chapter argues for understanding Los Angeles as a city-empire. Similar to what geographers and urbanists describe as “global city-regions” in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Los Angeles in the late nineteenth century functioned as a node of concentrated wealth and power in the borderlands economy and operated at an alternative scale to the nation-state. Ultimately, the city would function as the vanguard of an American commercial or “informal” empire in Mexico.

Edwin James-Chronicler of Geology in The American West

1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-120
Author(s):  
D. Merriam
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Great Plains ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
American West ◽  
Medical Studies ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Geological Map ◽  
Middlebury College ◽  
The U.S

Edwin James (1797-1861) was born in Weybridge, Addison County, Vermont, just 5 months after James Hutton, founder of modern geology, died in Edinburgh, Scotland. Edwin was the youngest of 13 children born to Deacon Daniel James and wife Mary. He studied medicine with his older brother in Albany, New York, after graduating from Middlebury College (Vermont) at the age of 19. While studying medicine, he became interested in geology and was influenced by Amos Eaton of the Rensselaer School. Upon completing his medical studies. James accepted a position in the spring of 1820 as a botanist/geologist with the Maj. Stephan H. Long Expedition. He was the first man to reach the summit of James' Peak, now named Pike's Peak, and made notes on the geology of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. In 1823 "An Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains Performed in the Years 1819 and '20," written mostly by James, was published in Philadelphia (2 vols.) and London (3 vols.). This major work, from a Wernerian viewpoint, and five other lesser ones were published between 1820 and 1827. They were the sum total of his geological contributions, but included in the "Account" is the first geological map of the trans-Mississippi region. In 1823 he was commissioned an assistant surgeon in the U.S. Army; after leaving the Army in 1833 he later settled near Burlington, Iowa, where he was engaged in agriculture until his death in 1861.

scholarly journals East Asian Westerns at/as the Limits of the Western Genre Criticism

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 17-30
Author(s):  
Monika Siebert
Keyword(s):  
American West ◽  
East Asian ◽  
First Century ◽  
Genre Studies ◽  
Genre Criticism ◽  
Western Films ◽  
Contemporary Practice ◽  
Asian Cinema ◽  
Western Film ◽  
The U.S

The East Asian Westerns of the twenty-first century have been studied extensively by scholars of East Asian cinema, yet have been largely missing from the conversations animating the Western genre studies, despite the field’s recent transnational turn. This absence might be linked to their unique for­mal feature: their de-coupling of the genre’s most recognizable tropes and props from their presumed location in the American West. By indigenizing the Western, films such as Miike Takashi’s Sukiyaki Western Django 2007 or Kim Jee-woon’s The Good, the Bad, the Weird 2008 have served to consolidate national cinemas in East Asia and refashioned our understanding of globalization by highlight­ing regional, intra-Asian trajectories of influence. Despite their hasty dismissal by some Western film critics, they may still reinvigorate the theoretical conversations at the heart of Western studies as well as pose productive questions about their influence on the practice and reception of the U.S. iterations of the genre. In their deft citations drawing on the global Western vernacular, East Asian Westerns expose the centrality of the American West as the unsurpassable limit of the Western genre studies, while simultaneously revealing the appreciatively transnational tenor of the contemporary practice of the genre in the United States.WSCHODNIOAZJATYCKIE WESTERNY NA GRANICY/JAKO GRANICE KRYTYKI GATUNKU WESTERNUWschodnioazjatyckie westerny są szczegółowo badane przez badaczy azjatyckiego kina, jednak wyraź­nie pomijane w dyskusjach ożywiających studia nad gatunkiem westernu mimo niedawnego pojawie­nia się transnarodowej perspektywy badawczej. Ta nieobecność może mieć związek z ich wyjątkową formalną cechą: odłączenie najbardziej rozpoznawalnych tropów i rekwizytów gatunkowych od ich macierzystej lokalizacji na amerykańskim Zachodzie. Przez akulturację westernu filmy takie, jak Sukiy­aki Western Django 2007 Miike Takashiego czy Dobry, zły i zakręcony 2008 Kima Jee-woona, służą konsolidacji kina narodowego we wschodniej Azji oraz przeformułowują nasze rozumienie globaliza­cji, podkreślając regionalne wewnątrzazjatyckie trajektorie wpływu. Mimo pochopnego lekceważenia przez niektórych zachodnich krytyków filmy te wciąż mają szansę ożywić teoretyczne dyskusje w sercu westernowych badań, jak również stawiać pożyteczne pytania o ich wpływ na praktykę iodbiór amery­kańskich reprodukcji gatunku. W swoich wprawnych cytowaniach obrazowania opartych na globalnym westernowym żargonie wschodnioazjatyckie westerny odsłaniają główne znaczenie amerykańskiego Zachodu jako nieprzekraczalną granicę badań gatunkowych westernu, jednocześnie ujawniając akcep­tująco ponadnarodową tonację współczesnej praktyki w obszarze tego gatunku w USA.                                                                                             Przeł. Kordian Bobowski

scholarly journals Degeneration of Settler Colonialism in Contemporary Cinematic Depictions of the U.S. West: Introduction

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
M. Elise Marubbio ◽  
Marek Paryż ◽  
Matthew Carter
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
American West ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Racial Minorities ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
The U.S

AbstractThe settler’s situation is underpinned by the fear of having been caught in a process of endless transition, hence the determination to define the parameters of collective sovereignty and to establish a satisfactory existential basis. The sense of uncertainty that underlies the settler’s situation accounts for the necessity of developing power structures that sustain the settler collective’s striving to complete its design, and this triggers a range of conflicts. Repeatedly addressing the eponymous region’s legacy of settler colonialism, film depictions of the American West re-inscribe oppression of racial minorities, sexual abuse, and class exploitation in order to validate the foundational settler-nation myth that consolidates hegemonic forms of racial, economic, cultural, and political power.

Historical Introduction

1977 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 2-5
Author(s):  
R. D. Heidenreich
Keyword(s):  
Electron Emission ◽  
Secondary Electron ◽  
Secondary Electron Emission ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Secondary Emission ◽  
Wave Nature ◽  
Nobel Prize In Physics ◽  
Primary Electrons ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Mutual Agreement

This program has been organized by the EMSA to commensurate the 50th anniversary of the experimental verification of the wave nature of the electron. Davisson and Germer in the U.S. and Thomson and Reid in Britian accomplished this at about the same time. Their findings were published in Nature in 1927 by mutual agreement since their independent efforts had led to the same conclusion at about the same time. In 1937 Davisson and Thomson shared the Nobel Prize in physics for demonstrating the wave nature of the electron deduced in 1924 by Louis de Broglie.The Davisson experiments (1921-1927) were concerned with the angular distribution of secondary electron emission from nickel surfaces produced by 150 volt primary electrons. The motivation was the effect of secondary emission on the characteristics of vacuum tubes but significant deviations from the results expected for a corpuscular electron led to a diffraction interpretation suggested by Elasser in 1925.

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