Politics in the postwar American West / edited by Richard Lowitt.

Other author Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
Format Book
Publication InfoNorman : University of Oklahoma Press, ©1995.
Descriptionx, 400 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents The Crude and the pure: oil and environmental politics in Alaska / Peter Coates -- The Cultural politics of water in Arizona / Peter Iverson -- A Half-century of conflict: the rise and fall of liberalism in California politics, 1943-1993 / Jackson K. Putnam -- Water politics in Colorado: change, or business as usual? / Sandra K. Davis -- Labor and ethnicity in Hawaiian politics / H. Brett Melendy -- Harassment, hate, and human rights in Idaho / Stephen Shaw -- Kansas and water: survival in the heartland / James E. Sherow and Homer E. Socolofsky -- The Price of "freedom": Montana in the late and post-Anaconda era / David Emmons -- Employer offensive in Nebraska politics, 1946-1949 / William C. Pratt -- Gambling and politics in Nevada / Jerome E. Edwards -- Two-star general, three-time loser: Patrick Hurley seeks a senate seat in New Mexico / Richard Lowitt -- A Part of the nation and apart from the nation: North Dakota politics since 1945 / David B. Danbom -- "The more things change...:: Oklahoma since 1945 / Danney Goble -- The Battle to control land use: Oregon's unique law of 1973 / E. Kimbark MacColl -- South Dakota governance since 1945 / Herbert T. Hoover and Steven C. Emery -- The Texas gubernatorial election of 1990: Claytie versus the lady / Ben Procter -- The Emergence of a Republican majority in Utah, 1970-1992 / Thomas G. Alexander -- Grand Coulee dam, the Columbia river, and the generation of modern Washington / Robert E. Ficken -- "Politics is personal": postwar Wyoming politics and the media / Phil Roberts and Peggy Bieber-Roberts.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [309]-369) and index.
LCCN 94043095
ISBN0806127112 (alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks F595.2 .P65 1995 ✔ Available Place Hold