{"product_id":"empires-nations-and-families","title":"Empires, Nations, and Families","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Ingenious. A magnificent scholarly achievement. A sweeping new narrative account of [western] history. A book to ponder and plunder.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Virginia Scharff, \u003cem\u003eWestern Quarterly Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Not only well researched and presented but instantly absorbing.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Adrienne Caughfield, \u003cem\u003eJournal of American History\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePulitzer Prize nominee and winner of the Bancroft Prize--historical writing's most prestigious award--\u003cem\u003eEmpires, Nations, and Families\u003c\/em\u003e is an epic work of American History that fills in the blanks on the map of the American West between 1800 and 1860. Historian Anne F. Hyde--author of \u003cem\u003eAn American Vision: Far Western Landscape and National Culture \u003c\/em\u003eand co-author (with William Deverell) of \u003cem\u003eThe West in the History of the Nation\u003c\/em\u003e--tells a riveting true story of Native Americans, entrepreneurs, fur trappers and fur traders in a vibrant \"wilderness\" to which Daniel Boone himself was a Johnny-come-lately.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48836068671693,"sku":"9780062225153","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_da1bb6de-3893-4665-bec1-db1375b24922.jpg?v=1790992675","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/empires-nations-and-families","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}