The American Far West in the Twentieth Century 1st Edition by Earl Pomeroy, Richard W Etulain ISBN 0300120737 9780300120738

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ISBN 10:  0300120737

ISBN 13: 9780300120738 

Author: Earl Pomeroy, Richard W. Etulain

An eminent scholar’s monumental and highly original history of the twentieth-century American West

In this richly insightful survey that represents the culmination of decades of research, a leading western specialist argues that the unique history of the American West did not end in the year 1900, as is commonly assumed, but was shaped as much—if not more—by events and innovations in the twentieth century. Earl Pomeroy gathers copious information on economic, political, social, intellectual, and business issues, thoughtfully evaluates it, and draws a new and more nuanced portrait of the West than has ever been depicted before.

Pomeroy mines extensive published and unpublished sources to show how the post–1900 West charted a path that was influenced by, but separate from, the rest of the country and the world. He deals not only with the West’s transition from an agricultural to an urban region but also with the important contributions of minority racial and ethnic groups and women in that transformation. Pomeroy describes a modern West—increasingly urban, transnational, and multicultural—that has overcome much of the isolation that challenged it at an earlier time. His final book is nothing short of the definitive source on that West.

Table of contents:

1. Foreword

2. Preface

3. Acknowledgments

4. The West in 1901

5. Agricultural Frontiers: New Farms and Family Farmers

6. Agricultural Frontiers: Farming on New Scales

7. New Forms of Economic Growth

8. Economic Growth from the 1940s

9. The Urban Occupation of the West: Rails, Roads, and Cities

10. Rails, Roads, and Cities from the Second World War

11. Social Relations and Social Attitudes: Cultural Bases

12. Social Relations and Social Attitudes: Putting Down Roots-Agencies of Acculturation

13. Western Politics

14. Expanding Electorates

15. Frontiers of Land and Opportunity: The Variously Far West

16. Notes

17. Supplemental Bibliography

18. Index

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