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The mobilized American West, 1940-2000 /
"In the years between 1940 and 2000, the American Far West went from being a relative backwater of the United States to a considerably more developed, modern, and prosperous region-one capable of influencing not just the nation but the world. By the dawn of the twenty-first century, the populat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2023]
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| Colección: | History of the American West.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of illustrations
- Series editor's introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. A mobilized region : The American West during wartime
- 2. Westerners: regional societies and regional identities
- 3. "A little more wide open" : social and political movements in the Western states
- 4. Seized by initiative : direct democracy and political culture in the far West
- 5. Armed standoffs : the politics of federal lands in the West
- 6. Region of the imagination : the mythic West and the realistic West after 1940
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Western states census summaries, 1940-2000
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.