{"product_id":"the-american-west-9780803260221","title":"The American West","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProvides 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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, \u003ci\u003eGreat Plains Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With the publication of this book, a major gap in western history has been filled by two premier historians in the field.”—Raymond Wilson, \u003ci\u003eNorth Dakota History: Journal of the Northern Plains\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eManhattan Mercury\u003c\/i\u003e (Kansas)\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe American West\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eNebraska History\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405263970647,"sku":"9780803260221","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803260221.jpg?v=1730489333","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-american-west-9780803260221","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}