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Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers (Many Wests)
1496215214 pdf 2024 WHA Robert M. Utley Prize Winner 2024 WHA Hal K. Rothman Prize Winner Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. In the late nineteenth century, at a time when Americans were becoming more removed from nature than ever before, U.S. soldiers were uniquely positioned to understand and construct natures ongoing significance for their work and for the nation as a whole. American ideas and debates about nature evolved alongside discussions about the meaning of frontiers, about what kind of empire the United States should have, and about what it meant to be modern or to make progress. Soldiers stationed in the field were at the center of these debates, and military action in the expanding empire brought new environments into play. In Read more