UID:
almafu_9960117113902883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 283 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
1-108-50549-X
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1-108-51443-X
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1-139-02243-1
Series Statement:
Cambridge essential histories
Content:
The American West has influenced important national developments throughout the twentieth century, not only in the cultural arena, but also in economic development, in political ideology and action, and in natural resource conservation and preservation. Using regionalism as a lens for illuminating these national trends, America's West: A History, 1890-1950 examines this region's history and explores its influence on the rest of America. Moving chronologically from the late nineteenth- to the mid-twentieth century, David M. Wrobel examines turn-of-the-century expansion, the Progressive Era, the 1920s, the Great Depression and the New Deal, World War II, and the early Cold War years. He emphasizes cultural and political history, showing how developments in the West frequently indicated the future direction of the country.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Oct 2017).
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Cover -- Half title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The West and America -- 1 Frontier, Region, Nation, and Crisis -- At the Wake of the Frontier -- Expansion and Exceptionalism -- Visions of Regional Diversity and Homogeneity -- 2 The Rise of a Leader and a Region -- A Western President -- The New West -- The Western Environment -- 3 Progressive Reform, Progressive Intolerance -- Progressive Motivations and Variations -- The Democratic West -- Western Social Justice -- Western Injustice -- World War I and the American West -- Coda: TR Returns -- 4 Regional Growth and Cultural Conflict -- Retraction and Growth -- Cultural Fault Lines -- The Antiradical Crusade -- Race Riots and Racial Policies -- The Second Klan in the West -- 5 From Safety Valve to Safety Net -- In the Frontier's Shadow -- Building Western Regions -- Restoring and Developing Western Lands -- Reaction, Reform, and Overreach -- 6 Exposing the Promised Land -- Racial Fault Lines in the Depression West -- Depicting the Migrants' Plight -- Depression and Demography -- 7 The Landscape of War -- The Arsenal of Democracy -- The Demography and Economy of War -- Wartime and Postwar Party Politics -- 8 The Good War? -- War and Social Dislocation -- Race Relations on the Western Home Front -- The Cold War, the West, and the Rebirth of American Exceptionalism -- Coda: The West at Mid-Century -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-19201-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-15013-2
Language:
English
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