Patricia Nelson Limerick

Biographic Data

ID792187
NAMEPatricia Nelson Limerick
GIVEN NAMESPatricia Nelson
FAMILY NAMELimerick
SIGNATURELIMERICK P N
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Colorado System
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS74
AUTHOR COUNT43
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX5

  • Remedies for a New West: Healing Landscapes, Histories, and Cultures

    Patricia Nelson Limerick, Andrew Cowell et al.BOOKRemedies for a New West2022

  • Hoping Against History: Environmental Justice in the Twenty-first Century

    Patricia Nelson LimerickCHAPTERJustice and Natural Resources2013

  • Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona

    Eric V Meeks, Patricia Nelson LimerickBOOKBorder Citizens2007

    In Border Citizens, historian Eric V. Meeks explores how the racial classification and identities of the diverse indigenous, mestizo, and Euro-American residents of Arizona's borderlands evolved as the region was politically and economically incorporated into the United States. First published in 2007, the book examines the complex relationship between racial subordination and resistance over the course of a century. On the one hand, Meeks links …

  • Empire and Amnesia

    Open AccessPatricia Nelson LimerickARTICLEHistorian2004

    Additional informationNotes on contributorsPatricia Nelson LimerickPatricia Nelson Limerick is a professor of history and the director of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado

  • Interchange: The Practice of History

    Drew Gilpin Faust, Drew Faust et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2003Cited by: 2

    Journal Article The Practice of History Get access Journal of American History, Volume 90, Issue 2, September 2003, Pages 576–611, https://doi.org/10.2307/3659445 Published: 01 September 2003

  • The Western Paradox: A Conservation Reader

    Bernard Devoto, Douglas Brinkley et al.BOOKWestern Paradox2001

  • Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West

    Pincetl, Stephanie Pincetl et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review2001

  • Dilemmas in Forgiveness: William Appleman and Western American History

    Patricia Nelson LimerickARTICLEDiplomatic History2001

    I am participating in this symposium, in large part, to pick up a conversation that got launched very memorably several years ago, but didn’t get much past launching because of my own failure of knowledge. I can’t remember exactly when or where this conversation took place – AHA? OAH? – some city, somewhere – but I had been invited to go to dinner with a group of people who were friends and protégés of William Appleman Williams. I sat down at the…

  • Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West

    Anne F Hyde, Patricia Nelson LimerickARTICLEJournal of American History2001Cited by: 11

    Journal Article Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West. By Patricia Nelson Limerick. (New York: Norton, 2000. 384 pp. $26.95, ISBN 0-393-03788-6.) Get access Anne F. Hyde Anne F. Hyde Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Pages 178–179, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674935 Published: 01 Jun…

  • Going West and Ending up Global

    Patricia Nelson LimerickARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2001Cited by: 2

    Steering clear of provincialism, Western American historians can play a central role in comparative studies of processes of colonialism and imperialism, locating the region in the big picture of world history

  • The Altered Landscape

    Michael A Amundson, Peter E Pool et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2000

    Journal Article The Altered Landscape Get access The Altered Landscape. Edited by Pool Peter E., essays by Patricia Nelson Limerick, Dave Hickey, and Thomas W. Southall. (Reno: Nevada Museum of Art/University of Nevada Press, 1999. xxi + 143 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographies. $49.95.) Michael A. Amundson Michael A. Amundson Northern Arizona University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historic…

  • On History

    Patricia Nelson Limerick, Eric Hobsbawm et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1999

    Journal Article On History. By Eric Hobsbawm. (New York: New Press, 1997. xii, 305 pp. $25.00, ISBN 1-56584-393-2.) and History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past. By Gary B. Nash, Charlotte Crabtree, and Ross E. Dunn. (New York: Knopf, 1997. xiv, 318 pp. $26.00, ISBN 0-679-44687-7.) Get access Patricia Nelson Limerick Patricia Nelson Limerick University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxf…

  • J. B. Jackson and the Play of the Mind: Inquiry and Assertion as Contact Sports

    Open AccessPatricia Nelson LimerickARTICLEGeographical Review1998Cited by: 1

    Adopting the persona of the nonacademic, J. B. Jackson was, nonetheless, a major influence on academic scholarship. Expertly and deftly, he played on his understanding of scholarly convention, pushing the boundaries of “legitimate” generalization and assertion. Careful observation of his style reveals eight strategies for testing, mocking, and challenging habits of mind that can unnecessarily constrict scholarly inquiry. From daring in the drawin…

  • All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions

    Carl Abbott, Edward L Ayers et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1997

  • The Real West

    Corlann Gee Bush, Patricia Nelson LimerickARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1997

    Journal Article The Real West Get access The Real West. Commentary by Limerick Patricia Nelson. (Denver: The Civic Center Cultural Complex, 1996. 96 pp. Illustrations. $12.95.) Corlann Gee Bush Corlann Gee Bush Montana State University-Bozeman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 28, Issue 3, Autumn 1997, Page 407, https://doi.org/10.2307/971034 Published: 01 August 1997

  • Insiders and Outsiders: The Borders of the USA and the Limits of the ASA: Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, 31 October 1996

    Open AccessPatricia Nelson LimerickARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1997Cited by: 7

    Insiders and Outsiders: The Borders of the USA and the Limits of the ASA: Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, 31 October 1996* Patricia Nelson Limerick (bio) In 1972, I entered an American studies graduate program, and yet no one told me what American studies was. It is true that I never asked. In the unfortunate but seemingly unchangeable lifeways of graduate school, I assumed that everyone around me knew—and knew in detail…

  • All over the Map: Rethinking American Regions

    John L Thomas, Edward L Ayers et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1996

    Journal Article All over the Map: Rethinking American Regions. By Edward L. Ayers, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Stephen Nissenbaum, and Peter S. Onuf. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. x, 136 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-8018-5206-4. Paper, $13.95, ISBN 0-8018-5392-3.) Get access John L. Thomas John L. Thomas Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Am…

  • The Frontier in American Culture

    Walter Nugent, Richard White et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1995Cited by: 3

    Journal Article “Frontier in American Culture.” Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St., Chicao, IL 60610-3380 Get access Walter Nugent Walter Nugent University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Pages 1145–1148, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945121 Published: 01 December 1995

  • The Frontier in American Culture: An Exhibition at the Newberry Library, August 26, 1994 - January 7, 1995

    Anne F Hyde, Richard White et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1995

    Journal Article The Frontier in American Culture: An Exhibition at the Newberry Library, August 26, 1994 – January 7, 1995 Get access The Frontier in American Culture: An Exhibition at the Newberry Library, August 26, 1994 - January 7, 1995. Essays by Richard White and Patricia Nelson Limerick. Edited by Grossman James R.. (Chicago: Newberry Library/Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. xiii + 116 pp. Illustrations, notes. $30.00, cloth…

  • The Frontier in American Culture

    Richard White, Rob White et al.BOOKFrontier in American Culture1994

    Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and Patricia Limerick join their inimitable talents to explore our national preoccupation with this uniquely American image. Richard White examines the two most enduring s…

  • The Civil War in the American West

    Patricia Nelson Limerick, Alvin M JosephyARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article The Civil War in the American West. By Alvin M.JosephyJr. (New York: Knopf, 1991. xiv + 448 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-394-56482-0.) Get access Patricia Nelson Limerick Patricia Nelson Limerick University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Page 277, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079769 Published: 01 June 1993

  • Trails: Toward a New Western History

    Susan Armitage, Patricia Nelson Limerick et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article Trails: Toward a New Western History. Ed. by Patricia Nelson Limerick, Clyde A. Milner II, and Charles E. Rankin. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991. xvi + 295 pp. Cloth, $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0500-2. Paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-7006-0501-0.) Get access Susan Armitage Susan Armitage Washington State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4,…

  • Trails: Toward a New Western History

    E A Schwartz, Patricia Nelson Limerick et al.ARTICLEThe American Indian Quarterly1993Cited by: 17

  • Trails: Toward a New Western History

    W Turrentine Jackson, Patricia Nelson Limerick et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1993

    Journal Article Trails: Toward a New Western History Get access Trails: Toward a New Western History. Edited by Limerick Patricia Nelson Milner Clyde A.II Rankin Charles E.. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991. xv + 295 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $29.95, cloth; $12.95, paper.) W. Turrentine Jackson W. Turrentine Jackson University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western H…

  • Western History Association Prize Recipient, 1992: Howard R. Lamar

    Homer E Socolofsky, Richard W Etulain et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1993

    Homer E. Socolofsky, Richard W. Etulain, Patricia Nelson Limerick, WHA Prize Committee; Western History Association Prize Recipient, 1992: Howard R. Lamar