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. University of New Mexico.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nash, Gerald D.

West (U.S.)--Civilization--20th century.

West (U.S.).

West (U.S.)--History--1945-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The ten original essays commissioned for this book focus on historical subjects in the post-World War II American West. The late Gerald Nash, in whose honor the essays were written, made major contributions to the study of modern American and western American history, and his impact on those fields is demonstrated in these essays by several generations of his students and colleagues. Emphasizing social and cultural developments, the essays draw on methodologies and topics from comparative history, environmental history, urban history, and political history. The authors write on subjects ranging from women's rights to urban sprawl, from organized religion to tourism, from mining to American Indian culture. An autobiographical essay by Nash himself situates his life's work in the context of two formative experiences: his intellectual development as a German refugee arriving in New York in the late 1930s and his commitment to the study of the American West when he began graduate school. The contributors include Margaret Connell-Szasz, Arthur R. Gomez, Donald J. Pisani, Marjorie Bell Chambers, Carol Lynn MacGregor, Christopher J. Huggard, Roger W. Lotchin, and Gene M. Gressley, as well as Nash and the volume editors.

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:

1-283-63517-8

0-8263-2945-4

OCLC:

774404003