Sarah Deutsch

Making a Modern U.S. West

The Contested Terrain of a Region and Its Borders, 1898-1940

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 203mm x 51mm
• Gewicht: 1089g
• ISBN-13: 9781496228611
• ISBN-10: 1496228618
• Artikelnr.: 61383049

Autorenporträt

Sarah Deutsch is a professor of history at Duke University. She is the author of Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870–1940 and No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class, and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880–1940.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editor’s Introduction
Acknowledgments
Introduction: How to Make the West Modern
Part 1. Demarcating, 1898–1910
1. Man and Nature
2. The Changing Meaning of Crossing Lines
3. Being American in Boley, Oklahoma
Part 2. Agitating, 1910–21
4. Revolution and Revolutionaries
5. Women and Their Alliances
6. Global Conflict and Local Strife
Part 3. Speculating, 1920–29
7. Oil
8. Land
9. Speculating on the West Imagined
Part 4. Mobilizing, 1928–40
10. Demobilizing
11. Mobilizing the New Deal
12. Moving People and Animals to Save the People and the Land
Conclusion: Making a Modern West
Notes
Bibliography
Index