Books, Bluster, and Bounty : Local Politics and Carnegie Library Building Grants in the Intermountain West, 1890-1920 /

"Susan Swetnam uses case studies of western applications for Carnegie libraries to examine how local support was mustered for cultural institutions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century interior West. This is a comparative study involving the entire region between the Rockies and t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Swetnam, Susan H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
HISTORY / Social History.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY).
Carnegie libraries > West (U.S.) > History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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