Title:
Shaped by the West : a history of North America. Volume 2, From 1850 / William Deverell and Anne Hyde.
ISBN:
9780520291416
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Publication Information:
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
©2018
Physical Description:
xiv, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction -- Railroads west -- Western conquest : the war against Native America -- The unwelcome -- The rise of the western metropolis -- Populism : the politics of protest -- Labor unrest in the West -- Los Angeles comes of age -- World War I and the West -- Progressives, progressivism, and the American West -- The 1920s : prohibition and the West -- The Great Depression : the New Deal and the western landscape -- Domestic turmoil and intolerance in a time of war -- The Cold War and the atomic West -- Generation and other gaps -- The West's Vietnam -- Immigration roils in the West -- Environmental challenges and environmental imperatives.
Summary:
"Shaped by the West is a primary-source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens. America's expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy, politics, race, freedom, and property. The sources included in this volume reflect the important role of the West in national narratives of American history, from the pre-Columbian era to 1877. William Deverell and Anne F. Hyde provide a nuanced look at the past, balancing topics in society and politics and representing all kinds of westerners--black and white, native and immigrant, male and female, powerful and powerless--from more than twenty states across the West and the shifting frontier."--Provided by publisher.
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OCLC Number:
ocn945719121
Availability:
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