Making a Modern U.S. West : The Contested Terrain of a Region and Its Borders, 1898-1940 /
This book surveys the history of the U.S. West from 1898 to 1940, centering what is often relegated to the margins in histories of the region - the flows of people, capital, and ideas across borders.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2022]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : How to Make the West Modern
- Demarcating, 1898-1910. Man and Nature ; The Changing Meaning of Crossing Lines ; Being American in Boley, Oklahoma
- Agitating, 1910-21. Revolution and Revolutionaries ; Women and Their Alliances ; Global Conflict and Local Strife
- Speculating, 1920-29. Oil ; Land ; Speculating on the West Imagined
- Mobilizing, 1928-40. Demobilizing ; Mobilizing the New Deal ; Moving People and Animals to Save the People and the Land
- Conclusion : Making a Modern West.