William Cronon, George Miles, and Jay Gitlin, Editors

Under an Open Sky

Rethinking America's Western Past

"If you prefer history served in a dozen fresh ways, get this book."—Chicago Tribune

The history of the American West is alive with new ideas, new questions, new scholarship. Long defined by Frederick Jackson Turner's concept of the frontier, the field now admits a rich array of subjects including the experiences of diverse peoples as well as the history of the land itself. The original essays in this volume are reports from the frontier of scholarship on the meaning and direction of western history.

William Cronon is Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of American History at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is the author of Changes in the Land and the Bancroft Prize–winning Nature's Metropolis. George Miles is curator of the Western Americana Collection at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Jay Gitlin is a lecturer in history at Yale University.

1993 / paperback / ISBN 0-393-31063-9 / 5-1/2" x 8-1/4" / 366 pages / American History