The North American West in the twenty-first century

The North American West in the twenty-first century /

"The North American West in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Brenden W. Rensink, takes stories of the late twentieth-century 'modern West' and carefully pulls them toward the present--explicitly tracing continuity with or unexpected divergence from trajectories established in the 1...

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Other Authors: Rensink, Brenden W. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
West (U.S.) > History > 1945-
West (U.S.) > Social conditions.
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of 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.

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