America's West: A History, 1890–1950 (Cambridge Essential - download pdf or read online

By David M. Wrobel

the yankee West has inspired very important nationwide advancements through the 20th century, not just within the cultural area, but additionally in monetary improvement, in political ideology and motion, and in usual source conservation and protection. utilizing regionalism as a lens for illuminating those nationwide developments, America's West: A historical past, 1890–1950 examines this region's heritage and explores its impression at the remainder of the United States. relocating chronologically from the past due 19th- to the mid-twentieth century, David M. Wrobel examines turn-of-the-century enlargement, the innovative period, the Twenties, the good melancholy and the hot Deal, global struggle II, and the early chilly warfare years. He emphasizes cultural and political heritage, exhibiting how advancements within the West usually indicated the longer term path of the country.

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