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Making a Modern U. S. West : The Contested Terrain of a Region and Its Borders, 1898-1940.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: History of the American West SeriesPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (654 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781496229564
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making a Modern U. S. WestDDC classification:
  • 978.033
LOC classification:
  • F595 .D488 2022
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Series Editors' Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- 1. Man and Nature -- 2. The Changing Meaning of Crossing Lines -- 3. Being American in Boley, Oklahoma -- Part 2 -- 4. Revolution and Revolutionaries -- 5. Women and Their Alliances -- 6. Global Conflict and Local Strife -- Part 3 -- 7. Oil -- 8. Land -- 9. Speculating on the West Imagined -- Part 4 -- 10. Demobilizing -- 11. Mobilizing the New Deal -- 12. Moving People and Animals to Save the People and the Land -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Making a Modern U.S. West 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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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Series Editors' Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- 1. Man and Nature -- 2. The Changing Meaning of Crossing Lines -- 3. Being American in Boley, Oklahoma -- Part 2 -- 4. Revolution and Revolutionaries -- 5. Women and Their Alliances -- 6. Global Conflict and Local Strife -- Part 3 -- 7. Oil -- 8. Land -- 9. Speculating on the West Imagined -- Part 4 -- 10. Demobilizing -- 11. Mobilizing the New Deal -- 12. Moving People and Animals to Save the People and the Land -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Making a Modern U.S. West 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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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