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.).

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