List of figures; List of maps; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Frontier, region, nation, and crisis; 2. The rise of a leader and a region; 3. Democracy and intolerance; 4. Regional growth and cultural conflict; 5. From safety valve to safety net; 6. Exposing the promised land; 7. The landscape of war; 8. The good war?; Coda: the West at mid-century; Bibliography.
This book examines the regional history of the American West in relation to the rest of the United States, emphasizing cultural and political history.
David M. Wrobel is a Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Promised Lands (2002), The End of American Exceptionalism (1993), and Global West, American Frontier (2013), which won the Western Heritage Award for nonfiction. He is a past president of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association and of Phi Alpha Theta, the National History Honor Society.
'From the 'closing of the frontier' to the 'good war', this
immensely comprehensive and well-informed book is a fresh history
of the West and its place in the nation. Wrobel's take on
progressivism and its sequels through the 1940s are invariably
nuanced and sensitive. A great read.' Walter Nugent, University of
Notre Dame
'With this book, David M. Wrobel proves again his mastery of the
historian's craft. Analytic and synthetic, Wrobel breathes life
into the symbiotic relationship that shaped the West and, in turn,
the nation at large.' Robert A. Goldberg, University of Utah
'This beautifully written book shows how in the span on a single
lifetime the American West was transformed, and how that
transformation reshaped US politics and culture during the first
half of the twentieth century.' David S. Tanenhaus, University of
Nevada, Las Vegas
'David M. Wrobel has written an excellent account of how the
American West transitioned in less than sixty years from a colony
controlled by distant forces to a region that began to shape the
economic, cultural, and political vectors of the country and the
world.' Joseph E. Taylor III, Simon Fraser University, British
Columbia
'Wrobel's established excellence as a scholar of western American
history is on full display in this careful examination of the
region's cultural, economic, and political complexity.' Joseph
'Andy' Fry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
'David M. Wrobel's America's West superbly continues Wrobel's
complex and insightful contributions to one of our most important
historiographical traditions.' Robert D. Johnston, University of
Illinois, Chicago
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