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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Findlay, John M., 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A mobilized region : The American West during wartime
  • Westerners: regional societies and regional identities
  • "A little more wide open" : social and political movements in the Western states
  • Seized by initiative : direct democracy and political culture in the far West
  • Armed standoffs : the politics of federal lands in the West
  • Region of the imagination : the mythic West and the realistic West after 1940.