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

• Autore: Deutsch Sarah
• Pubblicazione: Lincoln, Nebraska : , : University of Nebraska Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (654 pages)
• Disciplina: 978.033
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: West (U.S.) Emigration and immigration History 20th century; West (U.S.) Social conditions 20th century; West (U.S.) History 1890-1945
• Classificazione: HIS036140HIS036060
• 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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Making a modern U.S. West
• ISBN: 1-4962-2861-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910795761003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: History of the American West