Walter Prescott Webb (1888–1963)

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A regional historian of imagination and vision, Walter Prescott Webb presented his studies of the frontier, the Great Plains, and his beloved Texas in terms that enhanced the reader's understanding of the entire national experience. Born into a poor East Texas family at a time when the plains were vis mere succumbing to the pressure of white civilization, he was a true product of his environment and liked to say that he had begun research on his classical study The Great Plains (1931) "when I was four." Trained at the University of Texas, he began teaching there as well in 1918; yet a series of misadventures prevented him from receiving his Ph.D. until 1932. In 1938 he was Harkness lecturer in American history at the University of London and several years later Harmsworth Professor of American history at Oxford University. Although Webb's work excited controversy and sharp criticism in some quarters, it inspired significant new thinking about the role of regionalism and the environment in the nation's history. In his presidential address to the American Historical Association in 1958, Webb spoke of "History as High Adventure," an apt reflection of his lifelong approach to his work. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre

Omfatter også følgende navne: Walter Prescot Webb, Walter Prescott Webb, Webb Walter Prescott, Walter Webb; Prescott, Walter Prescott. Lonnie Rees. Webb

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The Great Plains (1931) 313 eksemplarer

The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense (1935) 203 eksemplarer

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The Story of the Texas Rangers (1957) 30 eksemplarer

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Divided we stand;: The crisis of a frontierless democracy, (1937) 9 eksemplarer

The Handbook of Texas, Volume II (1976) 8 eksemplarer

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History as High Adventure 4 eksemplarer

A Texan's Story: The Autobiography of Walter Prescott Webb (2020) 2 eksemplarer

Essays on Walter Prescott Webb (The Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, 10) (1976) 2 eksemplarer

The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume XLVIII, No. 2 October 1944 (1944) 2 eksemplarer

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The Texas Rangers in the Mexican War (1975) 2 eksemplarer

The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume XLVI, No. 3, January 1943 (1943) 1 eksemplar

Flat Top, a story of Modern Ranching (1960) 1 eksemplar

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Fødselsdato: 1888-04-03
Dødsdag: 1963-03-08
Køn: male
Erhverv: historian
Organisationer: American Historical Association (president | 1958)

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The Texas Rangers af Walter Prescott Webb

I can't believe it! I'm a multi-generation Texan and I have never read this book, but I am doing so now!
We just got back from a little trip to the Texas Hill Country and I got quite engaged in the story of the rangers and a little Indian skirmish at Bandera Pass where an early ranger captain, John (Jack) Coffee Hays led his rangers. I quote from Webb's chapter on him: "A captain had not only courage, which may be a purely emotional thing, but he had what is better, a complete absence of fear. For him fear and courage are unknown; he is not conscious of either. This means that he is free, with every faculty about him, to act in complete accord with his intelligence."… (mere)

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