North American West in the Twenty-First Century (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Rensink, Brenden W.

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1893 Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the generational process of meeting and conquering the supposedly uncivilized western frontier is what forged American identity. In the late twentieth century, "new western" historians dissected the mythologized western histories that Turner and others had long used to embody American triumph and progress. While Turner's frontier is no more, the West continues to present America with challenging processes to wrestle, navigate, and overcome.The North American West in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Brenden W. Rensink, takes stories of the late twentieth-century "modern West" and carefully pulls them toward the present-explicitly tracing continuity with or unexpected divergence from trajectories established in the 1980s and 1990s. Considering a broad range of topics, including environment, Indigenous peoples, geography, migration, and politics, these essays straddle multiple modern frontiers, not least of which is the temporal frontier between our unsettled past and uncertain future. These forays into the twenty-first-century West will inspire more scholars to pull histories to the present and by doing so reinsert scholarly findings into contemporary public awareness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496233288
• Artikelnr.: 72458932

Autorenporträt

Brenden W. Rensink is an associate director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and an associate professor of history at Brigham Young University. He is the author of Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Foreword, by Patricia Nelson Limerick
Introduction: Updating “Modern West” Histories for the Twenty-First
Century 
Brenden W. Rensink
Part 1. Environmental Reckonings
1. Poisoned Wilderness: Superfund and Libby, Montana
Jennifer Dunn
2. Vulnerable Harvests: Agricultural Risk and Environmental Hazard in the
Modern Great Plains West
David D. Vail
Part 2. Indigenous Lands and Sovereignty
3. Sacred Space and Identity: The Fight for Chi’chil Bi¿dagoteel (Oak Flat)
and the History of the San Carlos Apachean Peoples
Marcus C. Macktima
4. Chess or Checkers?: Fracking in Greater Chaco
Soni Grant
Part 3. Urban and Rural Transformations
5. Westworld: Life on the High-Tech Frontier
Stuart W. Leslie and Layne R. Karafantis
6. Our Mission, No Eviction: Resisting Gentrification in San Francisco
Lindsey Passenger Wieck
7. Agritourism as Land-Saving Action in the New West
Jeffrey M. Widener
Part 4. Migrant Lives and Labor
8. “A Violation of the Most Elementary Human Rights of Children”: The Rise
of Migrant Youth Detention and Family Separation in the American West 
Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez
9. Toxins in the Field: The CRLA, Farmworker Families, and Environmental
Justice in Contemporary California
Taylor Cozzens
10. NAFTA’s Legacy in the High Country: Mexican Migration to Colorado’s
Western Slope
Ernesto Sagás
Part 5. Unresolved Politics and Law
11. “I Oppose the ERA, but I Do Approve of Equal Rights for Women”: Gender
and Politics in the Aftermath of the Equal Rights Amendment Campaign in the
U.S. West
Chelsea Ball
12. LGBTQ Civil Rights in Washington State Since 1977: An Unresolved
History
Peter Boag
13. The American West, Native Americans, and Controversies over the
Antiquities Act: Bears Ears National Monument, a Utah Case Study
Andrew Gulliford
Afterword
Frank Bergon
Notes
Contributors
Index