Arizona : a history / Thomas E. Sheridan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sheridan, Thomas E., author.

Series:

Southwest Center series.

Southwest Center series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arizona--History.

Arizona.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 484 p.) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hailed as a model state history thanks to Thomas E.Sheridan's thoughtful analysis and lively interpretation of the people and events shaping the Grand Canyon State, Arizona has become a standard in the field.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Maps

Preface

Introduction

I. Incorporation

1. The Native Americans

2. The Arrival of the Europeans

3. Mexican Arizona and the Anglo Frontier

4. Early Anglo Settlement and the Beginning of the Indian Wars

5. The Military Conquest of Indian Arizona

II . Extraction

6. The Freighters and the Railroads

7. Cattle

8. Silver and Gold

9. Copper

10. Oases in the Desert

11. Water and Cotton

III . Transformation

12. Climate

13. The Depression and the New Deal

14. World War II and the Postwar Boom

15. The Other Arizona

16. From the Southwest to the Sunbelt

17. Arizona in the Twenty-First Century

18. The Political Ecology of a Desert State

Reference Material

Bibliographic Essays

Index

Maps

Political map of Arizona

Physiographic map of Arizona

Indian reservations in Arizona

Federal lands in Arizona.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8165-9954-8

1-299-19209-2

OCLC:

923438717