The making of a history : Walter Prescott Webb and The Great Plains / Gregory M. Tobin.
TITLE:
The making of a history : Walter Prescott Webb and The Great Plains / Gregory M. Tobin.
Publication Date:
1976
Publication Information:
Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press,
Physical Description:
xix, 184 p. : ill.
Subject Term:
Bibliography Note:
Bibliography: p. [159]-176.
Summary:
Tobin emphasizes two aspects of Webb's life that molded the historian's outlook: his early family life and community connections in West Texas and his admiration for the ideas of scholar Lindley Miller Keasbey. Webb reacted strongly against the assumption that the only cultural values of any real worth emanated from the urban and sophisticated East; he was determined to write the history of his own people in a way that would reveal the scale of their anonymous contribution to American civilization. By reverting to Keasbey's stress on the relationship between natural environment and social institutions, Webb broadened his study to take in what he believed to be a distinct geographic environment. The result was "The Great Plains," an assertion of individual and regional identity by a man with a personal stake in establishing the image of a distinctive Plains civilization.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780292750296
General Note:
Originally presented as the author's thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 1972.
Includes index.
