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The Awkward State of Utah Coming of Age in the Nation, 1896-1945 / Charles S. Peterson and Brian Q. Cannon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peterson, Charles S., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Utah--History--1896-1945.
- Utah.
- Utah--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 474 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- 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.
- 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 (pages 423-459) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-60781-422-6
- OCLC:
- 1142315265
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