The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. it is a tale of rivers diverted and damned, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecologic and economic disaster. In CADILLAC DESERT Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless t...(展开全部)

The spell that the West has always exercised on the American people had its most intense impact on American literature and thought during the nineteenth century. Smith shows, with vast comprehension, the influence of the nineteenth-century West in all its variety and strength, in special relation to social, economic, cultural, and political forces. He traces the myths and symbo...(展开全部)

Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about books of our time. A sweeping account of Western culture by a historian of legendary intellect, it is an astonishingly informed, forcefully eloquent, thrillingly controversial work that advances a world view based on the cyclical rise and ...(展开全部)

For decades, the story of the American West has been told as a glorious tale of conquest and rugged individualism--the triumph of progress. But recently, a new school of historians has challenged this view, creating what is known as the "new western history," an approach that gives a central role to the environment, native peoples, and the concentration of power in the hands of...(展开全部)

唐纳德·沃斯特，是美国堪萨斯大学赫尔杰出教授，美国人文与艺术学院院士：主要从事美国环境（生态）史和新西部史学的研究，著述颇丰，且以思想深邃、观点锐利、文字优美著称，曾分获国际、国内数十种图书奖和世界知名的人文社会科学大奖，还曾多次获得普利策奖提名。其大部分论著被译成包括中文、日文、韩文、法文、德文、意大利文、西班牙文、瑞典文、捷克文等在内的多种文字，对世界环境史的建立与发展起到了关键性的作用。作品目前已在我国出版的有《自然的经济体系》（商务印书馆）、《尘暴》（生活·读书·新知三联书店）等数种。

When Henry David Thoreau went for his daily walk, he would consult his instincts on which direction to follow. More often than not his inner compass pointed west or southwest. "The future lies that way to me," he explained, "and the earth seems more unexhausted and richer on that side." In his own imaginative way, Thoreau was imitating the countless young pioneers, prospector...(展开全部)

When Henry David Thoreau went for his daily walk, he would consult his instincts on which direction to follow. More often than not his inner compass pointed west or southwest. "The future lies that way to me," he explained, "and the earth seems more unexhausted and richer on that side." In his own imaginative way, Thoreau was imitating the countless young pioneers, prospector...(展开全部)