Description
Book SynopsisProvides a historical overview of the post-1900 American West. This book offers a comprehensive account of the modern West, delineating the changes and resulting complexities that characterize the 20th-century West. It considers the ways in which urban, service, and computer-related industries replaced rural, extractive and agricultural economies.
Trade Review“A fair and far-reaching synthesis. It is clearly the best single volume available on its subject. Malone and Etulain treat difficult topics in even-handed and often insightful fashion.”—Peter Iverson,
Great Plains Quarterly“With the publication of this book, a major gap in western history has been filled by two premier historians in the field.”—Raymond Wilson,
North Dakota History: Journal of the Northern Plains"Here is the up-to-date West, its economy, its varying social patterns, its culture, its politics, and a geographic matrix, with explanations that helps us know and appreciate who and what we are and maybe a bit as to where and why we may be going."—Glenn M. Busset,
Manhattan Mercury (Kansas)
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The American West is an outstanding book combining may key issues to create a fruitful history of the region since 1900. Etulain and Malone treat all subregions fairly. As they remind us, the West is still here and it will continue to play a prominent role in the future of the United States and even the world.”—Raymond D. Screws,
Nebraska History
Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionCHAPTER 1 - The Emerging Postfrontier Economy, 1900-1930CHAPTER 2 - Politics of the Postfrontier Era, 1900-1930CHAPTER 3 - Depression, New Deal, and War, 1930-1945CHAPTER 4 - Social Patterns in the Modern WestCHAPTER 5 - Culture in the Modern WestCHAPTER 6 - The Modern Western EconomyCHAPTER 7 - Politics of the Modern Era, 1945-1987CHAPTER 8 - A New Western Generation, Mid-1980s to 2005Bibliographical EssaysIndex
