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Limerick is the daughter of Grant and Patricia Nelson and was born and raised in Banning, California.
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The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West by Limerick, Patricia Nelson ( Author ) Paperback Jan- 2006 Paperback Jan- 01- 2006
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This lively book traces the development of American attitudes toward the desert using case studies from the writings of John C. Frémont, William Lewis Manly, Mark Twain, William Ellsworth Smythe, John Van Dyke, George Wharton James, Joseph Wood Krutch, and Edward Abbey. "Patricia Nelson Limerick is an original, learned, passionate writer. Everything she writes about the history of the American West deserves attention."--Larry McMurtry "Patricia Limerick is simply one of the best writers alive--and the astonishing thing is that she thinks as clearly and logically as she writes."--Garry Wills
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"Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard White The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality; in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here she interprets the stories and the characters in a new way: the trappers, traders, Indians, farmers, oilmen, cowboys, and sheriffs of the Old West "meant business" in more ways than one, and their descendents mean business today. 28 illustrations
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"Patricia Limerick is simply one of the best writers alive."―Garry Wills In Something in the Soil, Patricia Nelson Limerick travels far outside the usual academic circles to bring Western past and Western present into a spirited union. Whether her topic is the rapid growth in the West today, the patent awfulness of most academic writing, or struggles over the standing of the "Great White Men" of the region’s past, Limerick operates on the principle that history is an active presence in the West, layers of collective memory that are, quite literally, "something in the soil." Enlightening and always witty, this wide-ranging collection of essays and arguments from the New West’s landmark historian offers an artful journey into its dramatic past and contentious present.
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Limerick is the daughter of Grant and Patricia Nelson and was born and raised in Banning, California.
She received a Bachelor of Arts in American studies in 1972 at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Doctor of Philosophy in American studies in 1980 at Yale University.
In 2016 she became the Colorado State Historian. She worked at Harvard University as an assistant professor from 1980 to 1984. Previously she taught at Yale as a graduate teaching assistant, where she helped teach the highly regarded "daily themes" class.
Since then Limerick has been at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she is professor of history and chair of the Board of the Center of the American West.
Limerick is the current president of the Organization of American Historians (2014) and is a former president of the American Studies Association (1996–1997) and the Western History Association (2000). She is known for her 1987 book The Legacy of Conquest, which is part of a body of historical writing sometimes known as the New Western History.
In 1995, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. Her essay on the Modoc War, titled "Haunted America" appears in the collection Ways of Reading, a textbook widely used by undergraduate English students.
She also co-edited a collection of essays, titled Trails: Toward a New Western History which relate to her 1989 "Trails Through Time" exhibit.
In January 2016 she was named to the post of Colorado State Historian. Her acceptance of the position comes about through a new partnership between University of Colorado-Boulder and History Colorado, an agency that manages Colorado"s major museums and archives. Limerick will serve in this new role while maintaining her responsibilities as a professor and researcher
The new role will include developing exhibitions and public events.
Limerick"s first marriage was to Jeffrey Limerick, an architect who died of a stroke in 2005.
(The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American...)
( This lively book traces the development of American att...)
(Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American Wes...)
(Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American Wes...)
( "Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writin...)
( "Patricia Limerick is simply one of the best writers al...)
(Noticeable wear to cover and pages. May have some marking...)