The North American West in the twenty-first century
edited by Brenden W. Rensink
Bok Engelsk 2022 The North American West in the twenty-first century
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| Omfang | xxxvi, 380 sider: : illustrasjoner, kart
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| Opplysninger | 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.. - "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"--
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| ISBN | 9781496230430. - 9781496233028
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