Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-Century American West
by
Dr. Monica Rico
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
In this fascinating book Monica Rico explores the myth of the American West in the nineteenth century as a place for men to assert their masculinity by “roughing it” in the wilderness and reveals how this myth played out in a transatlantic context. Rico uncovers the networks of elite men—British...