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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2023]
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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.