The American West in 2000

The ten original essays commissioned for this book focus on historical subjects in the post-World War II American West. The late Gerald Nash, in whose honour the essays were written, made major contributions to the study of modern American and western American history, and his impact on those fields is demonstrated in these essays by several generations of his students and colleagues. Emphasising social and cultural developments, the essays draw on methodologies and topics from comparative history, environmental history, urban history, and political history. The authors write on subjects ranging from women's rights to urban sprawl, from organised religion to tourism, from mining to American Indian culture. An autobiographical essay by Nash himself situates his life's work in the context of two formative experiences: his intellectual development as a German refugee arriving in New York in the late 1930s and his commitment to the study of the American West when he began graduate school. The contributors include Margaret Connell-Szasz, Arthur R Gomez, Donald J Pisani, Marjorie Bell Chambers, Carol Lynn MacGregor, Christopher J Huggard, Roger W Lotchin, and Gene M Gressley, as well as Nash and the volume editors.

ISBN 0826329438   Pages 208 ISBN13 9780826329431 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher University of New Mexico Press   Weight (grammes) 477 Imprint University of New Mexico Press   Published in Albuquerque, NM Format Hardback   Height (mm) 230 Publication date 15 Mar 2003   Width (mm) 155 Library of Congress 2002154216   Spine width (mm) 21 DEWEY 978.033   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC21

		Preface by Richard W. Etulain
		Introduction by Ferenc M. Szasz		1
		Autobiography: Roads to the West by Gerald D. Nash		6
		The Cultural Renaissance in Native American and Celtic Worlds, 1940-2000 by Margaret Connell-Szasz		17
		Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Tourism and the National Park System in the Twenty-First-Century West by Arthur R. Gomez		35
		The Bureau of Reclamation and the West, 1945-2000 by Donald J. Pisani		52
		Activist Women in the West and Their Fight for Political Equity, 1960-2000 by Marjorie Bell Chambers		69
		The Cultural Life of Boise, Idaho, 1950-2000 by Carol Lynn MacGregor		85
		"Squeezing Out the Profits": Mining and the Environment in the U.S. West, 1945-2000 by Christopher J. Huggard		105
		Organized Religion and the Search for Community in the Modern American West by Ferenc M. Szasz		127
		Angels and Apples: The Late-Twentieth-Century Western City, Urban Sprawl, and the Illusion of Urban Exceptionalism by Roger W. Lotchin		143
		The American West, the World, and the Twenty-First-Century by Gene M. Gressley		164
		Gerald D. Nash and the Twentieth-Century American West by Richard W. Etulain		186
		Contributors		199
		Index		202

"These papers, as a whole, create an understanding of the modern West, its problems, and predictions of its future, that can be found nowhere else. . . .Editors Etulain and Szasz are to be complimented on their choice of papers and the good editing that went into the book."

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