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, the author recenters the history of the U.S.

Janne Lahti is Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and the editor of American Studies in Scandinavia.

Acknowledgments Introduction: The American West as Global History Part I Global Convergences Shared Worlds Settler Revolutions Part II Global Circulations Violence Intimacies of Empires Imperial Eyes Epilogue Index