The North American West in the Twenty-First Century
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3302-8 (ISBN)
In 1893 Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the generational process of meeting and conquering the supposedly uncivilized western frontier is what forged American identity. In the late twentieth century, “new western” historians dissected the mythologized western histories that Turner and others had long used to embody American triumph and progress. While Turner’s frontier is no more, the West continues to present America with challenging processes to wrestle, navigate, and overcome.
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 1980s and 1990s. Considering a broad range of topics, including environment, Indigenous peoples, geography, migration, and politics, these essays straddle multiple modern frontiers, not least of which is the temporal frontier between our unsettled past and uncertain future. These forays into the twenty-first-century West will inspire more scholars to pull histories to the present and by doing so reinsert scholarly findings into contemporary public awareness.
Brenden W. Rensink is an associate director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and an associate professor of history at Brigham Young University. He is the author of Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands.
List of Illustrations
Foreword, by Patricia Nelson Limerick
Introduction: Updating “Modern West” Histories for the Twenty-First Century Brenden W. Rensink Part 1. Environmental Reckonings
1. Poisoned Wilderness: Superfund and Libby, Montana Jennifer Dunn 2. Vulnerable Harvests: Agricultural Risk and Environmental Hazard in the Modern Great Plains West David D. Vail Part 2. Indigenous Lands and Sovereignty
3. Sacred Space and Identity: The Fight for Chi’chil Biłdagoteel (Oak Flat) and the History of the San Carlos Apachean Peoples Marcus C. Macktima 4. Chess or Checkers?: Fracking in Greater Chaco Soni Grant Part 3. Urban and Rural Transformations
5. Westworld: Life on the High-Tech Frontier Stuart W. Leslie and Layne R. Karafantis 6. Our Mission, No Eviction: Resisting Gentrification in San Francisco Lindsey Passenger Wieck 7. Agritourism as Land-Saving Action in the New West Jeffrey M. Widener Part 4. Migrant Lives and Labor
8. “A Violation of the Most Elementary Human Rights of Children”: The Rise of Migrant Youth Detention and Family Separation in the American West Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez 9. Toxins in the Field: The CRLA, Farmworker Families, and Environmental Justice in Contemporary California Taylor Cozzens 10. NAFTA’s Legacy in the High Country: Mexican Migration to Colorado’s Western Slope Ernesto Sagás Part 5. Unresolved Politics and Law
11. “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 U.S. West Chelsea Ball 12. LGBTQ Civil Rights in Washington State Since 1977: An Unresolved History Peter Boag 13. The American West, Native Americans, and Controversies over the Antiquities Act: Bears Ears National Monument, a Utah Case Study Andrew Gulliford Afterword Frank Bergon Notes
Contributors
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.10.2022 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 12 photographs, 2 illustrations, 12 maps, 3 graphs, 2 tables, index |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4962-3302-6 / 1496233026 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-3302-8 / 9781496233028 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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