The North American West in the twenty-first century / edited by Brenden W. Rensink.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rensink, Brenden W., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

West (U.S.)--Social conditions.

West (U.S.).

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (419 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]

Summary:

"This edited volume takes Modern West stories from the late twentieth century and carefully pulls them towards the present-explicitly tracing continuity with or unexpected divergence from trajectories established in the 1980s and 1990s"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / by Patricia Nelson Limerick

Introduction: Updating "modern West" histories for the 21st century / by Brenden W. Rensink

Poisoned wilderness : Superfund and Libby, Montana / by Jennifer Dunn

Vulnerable harvests : agricultural risk and environmental hazard in the modern Great Plains West / by David D. Vail

Sacred space and identity : the fight for Oak Flat and the history of the San Carlos Apachean peoples / by Marcus C. Macktima

Chess or checkers? Fracking in the Greater Chaco / by Sonia Porelle Grant

Westworld : life on the high-tech frontier / by Stuart W. Leslie and Layne R. Karafantis

Our mission, no eviction : resisting gentrification in San Francisco / by Lindsey Passenger Wieck

Agritourism as land saving action in the New West / by Jeffrey M. Widener

"A violation of the most elementary human rights of children" : the rise of migrant youth detention and family separation in the American West / by Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez

Toxins in the field : the CRLA, farmworker families, and environmental justice in contemporary California / by Taylor Cozzens

NAFTA's legacy in the high country : Mexican migration to Colorado's Western Slope / by Ernesto Sagás

"I oppose the ERA, but I do approve of equal rights for women" : gender and politics in the aftermath of the Equal Rights Amendment campaign in the Western United States / by Chelsea Ball

LGBTQ civil rights in Washington state since 1977 : an unresolved history / by Peter Boag

The American West, Native Americans, and controversies over the Antiquities Act : Bears Ears National Monument, a Utah case study / by Andrew Gulliford

Afterword / by Frank Bergon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4962-3328-X

OCLC:

1345513543