{"product_id":"empires-nations-and-families-a-new-history-of-the-north-american-west-1800-1860-paperback","title":"Empires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800-1860 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnne F. Hyde\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ingenious. A magnificent scholarly achievement. A sweeping new narrative account of [western] history. A book to ponder and plunder.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Virginia Scharff, \u003cem\u003eWestern Quarterly Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Not only well researched and presented but instantly absorbing.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Adrienne Caughfield, \u003cem\u003eJournal of American History\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePulitzer Prize nominee and winner of the Bancroft Prize--historical writing's most prestigious award--\u003cem\u003eEmpires, Nations, and Families\u003c\/em\u003e is an epic work of American History that fills in the blanks on the map of the American West between 1800 and 1860. Historian Anne F. Hyde--author of \u003cem\u003eAn American Vision: Far Western Landscape and National Culture \u003c\/em\u003eand co-author (with William Deverell) of \u003cem\u003eThe West in the History of the Nation\u003c\/em\u003e--tells a riveting true story of Native Americans, entrepreneurs, fur trappers and fur traders in a vibrant \"wilderness\" to which Daniel Boone himself was a Johnny-come-lately.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2012 Bancroft Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Louisiana Purchase in 1803 doubled the size of the new United States, promising not only land but prosperity for its citizens. But the West was not the virgin wilderness of common myth. Rather, as historian Anne F. Hyde makes clear in her groundbreaking, prizewinning history, America was a newcomer in a place already complicated by vying empires-native and European. Here, for the first time, she traces the network of multiethnic family associations, which, along with the river systems of the trans-Mississippi West, had formed the basis for the global fur trade for centuries. Involved with this trade were trappers, hunters, merchants, bankers, and politicians by the thousands. Dazzling in its breadth and startling in its intimacy, \u003cem\u003eEmpires, Nations, and Families\u003c\/em\u003e provides a new look at Native nations and the economies and societies they built as well as a radically new understanding of the web of families, businesses, and personal empires that organized the North American West before the Civil War and the rise of the American empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne F. Hyde is a professor of history at Colorado College. She is the author of \"An American Vision: Far Western Landscape and National Culture\" and coauthor, with William Deverell, of \"The West in the History of the Nation.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 656\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 02, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45912329879749,"sku":"9780062225153","price":29.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/2wO4eaJACG9780062225153.webp?v=1772090143","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/empires-nations-and-families-a-new-history-of-the-north-american-west-1800-1860-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}