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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818583803321

Autore

Deutsch Sarah

Titolo

Making a modern U.S. West : the contested terrain of a region and its borders, 1898-1940 / / Sarah Deutsch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, Nebraska : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-4962-2861-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (654 pages)

Collana

History of the American West

Classificazione

HIS036140HIS036060

Disciplina

978.033

Soggetti

Migration, Internal - West (U.S.) - History - 20th century

Marginality, Social - West (U.S.) - History - 20th century

Economic development - West (U.S.) - History - 20th century

Borderlands - West (U.S.) - History - 20th century

West (U.S.) Emigration and immigration History 20th century

West (U.S.) Social conditions 20th century

West (U.S.) History 1890-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [571]-617) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Man and nature -- Borders inside and out--the changing meaning of crossing lines -- Being American in Boley, Oklahoma -- Revolution and revolutionaries -- Women and their alliances -- Global conflict and local strife -- Oil -- Land -- Speculating on the West imagined -- Demobilizing, 1928-32 -- Mobilizing the New Deal -- Moving people and animals to save the people and the land -- Conclusion: Making a modern West.

Sommario/riassunto

""Making a Modern U.S. West" provides an overview of the history of the U.S. West from 1898 to 1942 centering on what is often put at the margins in histories of the region-the flows of people, capital, and ideas across borders"--