The American West and the World
Transnational and Comparative Perspectives

The American West and the World provides a synthetic introduction to the transnational history of the American West. Drawing from the insights of recent scholarship, Janne Lahti recenters the history of the U.S. West in the global contexts of empires and settler colonialism, discussing exploration, expansion, migration, violence, intimacies, and ideas. Lahti examines established subfields of Western scholarship, such as borderlands studies and transnational histories of empire, as well as relatively unexplored connections between the West and geographically nonadjacent spaces. Lucid and incisive, The American West and the World firmly situates the historical West in its proper global context.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The American West as Global History

Part I Global Convergences

1. Shared Worlds
2. Settler Revolutions

Part II Global Circulations

3. Violence
4. Intimacies of Empires
5. Imperial Eyes

Epilogue

Index

Janne Lahti is Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and the editor of American Studies in Scandinavia.