title: Reading the West: New Essays on the Literature of the American West (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
author: Michael Kowalewski
description: "The pleasure of reading this collection is perhaps surpassed only by the erudition of its contributors....Readers who enjoy anything from the mysteries of Tony Hillerman to the stunning landscapes of Albert Bierstadt will find the revisionary critical readings of these essays exciting and thought provoking." American Literature<br /><br />"The writing is readable and strong throughout. Valuable selected bibliography. Highly recommended..." L. Evers, Choice<br /><br />"...a useful, much needed, and provacative collection of essays dealing with the American West." Western American Literature
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  ##  THE AMERICAN WEST AND THE WORLD
  
  _The American West and the World_ provides a synthetic introduction to the
  transnational history of the American West. Drawing from the insights of
  recent scholarship, Janne Lahti recenters the history of the U.S. West in the
  global contexts of empires and settler colonialism, discussing exploration,
  expansion, migration, violence, intimacies, and ideas. Lahti examines
  established subfields of Western scholarship, such as borderlands studies and
  transnational histories of empire, as well as relatively unexplored
  connections between the West and geographically nonadjacent spaces. Lucid and
  incisive, _The American West and the World_ firmly situates the historical
  West in its proper global context.
  
  **Janne Lahti** is Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Helsinki
  and the editor of _American Studies in Scandinavia_ .
  
  
  THE AMERICAN WEST AND THE WORLD
  
  Transnational and Comparative Perspectives
  
  _Janne Lahti