大陆的抉择：美国西部扩张时代 Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (History of the American West）

基本信息

Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Nebraska Press

Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 1, 2025

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 708 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1496243013

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1496243010

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.15 pounds

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.75 x 9 inches

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书籍简介

2024年普利策历史奖入围作品

2024年班克罗夫特美国历史奖得主

2024年考吉西部历史奖得主

2024年斯珀奖得主

《内战观察》杂志评选为2023年度最佳内战书籍

在《大陆的抉择》一书中，著名历史学家埃利奥特·韦斯特以恢弘的笔触描绘了美国西部及其在国家转型过程中扮演的关键角色。19世纪40年代，美国疆域已扩展至太平洋沿岸，这片后来被称为西部的土地，曾是众多充满活力的原住民文化的家园，同时也受到其他一些国家的模糊主权声索。三十年后，西部被划分为各个州和领地，并通过铁路、电报线和公路等基础设施以及种族和民族秩序与国家乃至世界紧密相连，而原住民则大多被剥夺了土地，被迫迁往保留地。 《大陆的抉择》一书认为，在国家生活这一关键转型时期，这些变革应与内战同等重要。

随着美国西部被征服、融入国家版图，并在物质和文化上得到改造，美国走上了经济加速增长、种族结构重组和公民身份重新定义、积极参与全球科技革命以及加强与世界其他地区联系的道路。西部的形成与现代美国的崛起密不可分，二者缺一不可。本书以精湛的文笔和批判的视角，为美国西部的黎明——美国历史上关键的时期之一——提出了全新的解读。

Finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in History

Winner of the 2024 Bancroft Prize in American History

Winner of the 2024 Caughey Western History Prize

Winner of the 2024 Spur Award

Named a Best Civil War Book of 2023 by Civil War Monitor

In Continental Reckoning renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the American West and its vital role in the transformation of the nation. In the 1840s, by which time the United States had expanded to the Pacific, what would become the West was home to numerous vibrant Native cultures and vague claims by other nations. Thirty years later it was organized into states and territories and bound into the nation and world by an infrastructure of rails, telegraph wires, and roads and by a racial and ethnic order, with its Indigenous peoples largely dispossessed and confined to reservations. Continental Reckoning argues that these changes should be given equal billing with the Civil War in this crucial transition of national life.

As the American West was acquired, integrated into the nation, and made over physically and culturally, the United States shifted onto a course of accelerated economic growth, a racial reordering and redefinition of citizenship, engagement with global revolutions of science and technology, and invigorated involvement with the larger world. The creation of the West and the emergence of modern America were intimately related. Neither can be understood without the other. With masterful prose and a critical eye, Continental Reckoning presents a fresh approach to the dawn of the American West, one of the most pivotal periods of American history.

作者简介

埃利奥特·韦斯特是阿肯色大学历史系荣誉退休教授。他著有多部书籍，包括《印第安战争：内兹珀斯人的故事》和《争夺的平原：印第安人、淘金者和科罗拉多淘金热》。

Elliott West is Alumni Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of numerous books, including The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story and The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado.