{"product_id":"taking-the-field-soldiers-nature-and-empire-on-american-frontiers-many-wests","title":"Taking the Field: Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers (Many Wests)","description":"Winner of the 2024 Robert M. Utley Prize\nWinner of the 2024 Hal K. Rothman Prize\n\nPublished in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.\n\nIn 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 nature’s 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.\n\nIn Taking the Field Amy Kohout draws on the experiences of U.S. soldiers in both the Indian Wars and the Philippine-American War to explore the interconnected ideas about nature and empire circulating at the time. By tracking the variety of ways American soldiers interacted with the natural world, Kohout argues that soldiers, through their words and their work, shaped Progressive Era ideas about both American and Philippine environments. Studying soldiers on multiple frontiers allows Kohout to inject a transnational perspective into the environmental history of the Progressive Era, and an environmental perspective into the period’s transnational history. Kohout shows us how soldiers—through their writing, their labor, and all that they collected—played a critical role in shaping American ideas about both nature and empire, ideas that persist to the present.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 149623376X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.149623376X.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Kohout, Amy\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41599289720890,"sku":"DBV.149623376X.VG","price":17.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/taking-the-field-soldiers-nature-and-empire-on-american-frontiers-many-wests","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}