The awkward state of Utah : coming of age in the nation, 1896-1945 / Charles S. Peterson & Brian Q. Cannon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peterson, Charles S., author.

Cannon, Brian Q., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic conditions.

Politics and government.

History.

Utah--History--19th century.

Utah.

Utah--Politics and government--19th century.

Utah--Economic conditions--19th century.

Utah--History--20th century.

Utah--Politics and government--20th century.

Utah--Economic conditions--20th century.

Economic history.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 474 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : Utah State Historical Society/The University of Utah Press, [2015]

Summary:

The half century between statehood in 1896 and the end of World War II in 1945 was a period of transformation and transition for Utah. This book interprets those profound changes, revealing sweeping impacts on both institutions and ordinary people. Drawing upon expertise honed over decades of teaching, researching, and writing about Utah's history, the authors incorporate fresh archival sources, new oral histories, and hundreds of scholarly articles and books as they narrate the little-known story of the crucial formative years when Utah came of age. During its sometimes awkward years of adolescence and maturation, Utah was gradually incorporated into the American political, social, and economic mainstream. Urban and industrial influences supplanted agrarian traditions causing social displacement, draining the countryside of population, and galvanizing a critical crisis of values and self-identification. National corporations and mass labor movements took root in the state as commerce expanded. Involvement in world events such as the Spanish-American War, two world wars, and the Great Depression further set the stage for entry into the modern, globalized world as Utahns immersed themselves in national politics and became part of the democratic, corporate culture of twentieth-century America. Book jacket.

Contents:

Politics at the turn of the century

Politics in the progressive era

Agriculture in the new state

Industrial development in the progressive era

The formation of the wageworkers' Frontier

The torturous maturation of an industrial workforce

At the whiplash end of pluralism: Indians in the new state

Changing federalism: the outdoors and its management

Water for an arid state

Utah in the 1920s

Hard times: weathering the Great Depression

Utah encounters the New Deal

Simply revolutionary: Utahns confront the Second World War

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781607814214

1607814218

OCLC:

900243313