The North American West in the twenty-first century / edited by Brenden W. Rensink.
| Other author | Rensink, Brenden W. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022] |
| Description | xxxvi, 380 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022005570 |
| ISBN | 9781496230430 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781496233028 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |