The Cowboy : Representations of Labor in an American Work Culture

Name: The Cowboy
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
SKU: 9780195072433
Price: 20800 KES
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ISBN: 9780195072433

by Blake Allmendinger

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 019507243X

ISBN-13 9780195072433

Publisher Oxford University Press Inc

Imprint Oxford University Press Inc

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 18th, 1993

Print length 216 Pages

Weight 522 grams

Dimensions 23.50 x 15.90 x 2.20 cms

Product Classification: History of the Americas Cultural studies

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Using literary, historical and popular cultural sources as well as folklore, this volume explores the cowboy's role in the American West. It makes use of early oral poems recited by cowboys, as well as histories and autobiographies, to demonstrate the importance of the cowboy's presence.

The Cowboy uses literary, historical, folkloric, and pop cultural sources to document the cowboy''s role in the culture of the American West. In doing so, Allmendinger makes use of early oral poems recited by cowboys in the course of their work, and later poems, histories, and autobiographies written by cowboys - most of which have never before been studied by scholars.

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