The American West in 2000 : essays in honor of Gerald D. Nash / edited by Richard W. Etulain and Ferenc Morton Szasz.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Nash, Gerald D.
• Etulain, Richard W.
• Szasz, Ferenc Morton, 1940-2010.
• University of New Mexico. Center for the Southwest.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• West (U.S.)--Civilization--20th century.
• West (U.S.)--History--1945-.
• Nash, Gerald D.

Genre:

• Festschriften.

Physical Description:

viii, 208 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2003]

Summary:

Lively essays on the study of the American West in honor of the late historian Gerald Nash.

Contents:

• Preface / Richard W. Etulain
• Introduction / Ferenc M. Szasz
• Autobiography : roads to the West / Gerald D. Nash
• The cultural renaissance in Native American and Celtic worlds, 1940-2000 / Margaret Connell-Szasz
• Will the circle be unbroken? : tourism and the National Park System in the twenty-first-century West / Arthur R. Gómez
• The bureau of reclamation and the West, 1945-2000 / Donald J. Pisani
• Activist women in the West and their fight for political equity, 1960-2000 / Marjorie Bell Chambers
• The cultural life of Boise, Idaho, 1950-2000 / Carol Lynn MacGregor
• "Squeezing out the profits" : mining and the environment in the U.S. West, 1945-2000 / Christopher J. Huggard
• Organized religion and the search for community in the modern American West / Ferenc M. Szasz
• Angels and apples : the late-twentieth-century western city, urban sprawl, and the illusion of urban exceptionalism / Roger W. Lotchin
• The American West, the world, and the twenty-first-century / Gene M. Gressley
• Gerald D. Nash and the twentieth-century American West / Richard W. Etulain.

Notes:

• "Published in cooperation with the Center for the Southwest University of New Mexico."
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0826329438

OCLC:

51053726