{"product_id":"the-north-american-west-in-the-twenty-first-century-hardback-9781496230430","title":"The North American West in the Twenty-First Century (Hardback) 9781496230430","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe North American West in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBrenden W. Rensink (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496230430\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 November 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e420 pages, 12 photographs, 3 illustrations, 12 maps, 3 graphs, 2 tables, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"An indelible cornerstone that future historians can build on in their study of the twenty-first-century American West.\"-Benjamin Kiser, H-Environment\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eThe North American West in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e is] a substantive study that is required reading for Western writers looking for a refresher course that argues convincingly that the Old West has been superseded by a West relevant for the times in which we live.\"-Abraham Hoffman, \u003ci\u003eRoundup Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"This book would be an excellent addition to any undergraduate course about the modern U.S. West, and will help build a new historiographical base for the field.\"-Sheila McManus, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Arizona History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"These wide-ranging, well-researched essays accomplish Rensink's goal of pulling modern Western scholarship into the twenty-first century and demonstrate the continuing power of historic events to shape the modern American West.\"-MichÈle T. Butts, \u003ci\u003eSouth Dakota History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Anthologies such as \u003ci\u003eTrails Toward a New Western History\u003c\/i\u003e (1991) have marked seminal moments in the developing field of western history. Brenden Rensink’s collection \u003ci\u003eThe North American West in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e is a new landmark volume in this tradition, one that marks a seminal moment in our understanding of what contemporary western history is. The contributors-a distinguished and adventurous group of emerging and established scholars-take on the vital issues of environment, Indigenous sovereignty, labor and migration, and politics, and place the transition to the twenty-first century at the forefront of our thinking. Every scholar and student of the West needs to engage with this important collection.”-David M. Wrobel, author of \u003ci\u003eAmerica’s West: A History, 1890–1950\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“This book is in the vanguard of scholarship on the twenty-first-century West. It will provide a benchmark for future generations of historians as they assess [this time period].”-Todd Kerstetter, author of \u003ci\u003eInspiration and Innovation: Religion in the American West\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe North American West in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Foreword, by Patricia Nelson Limerick\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Updating “\u003cbr\u003eModern West”\u003cbr\u003e Histories for the Twenty-First Century  \u003cdiv\u003eBrenden W. Rensink\u003c\/div\u003e Part 1. Environmental Reckonings\u003cbr\u003e 1. Poisoned Wilderness: Superfund and Libby, Montana \u003cdiv\u003eJennifer Dunn\u003c\/div\u003e 2. Vulnerable Harvests: Agricultural Risk and Environmental Hazard in the Modern Great Plains West \u003cdiv\u003eDavid D. Vail\u003c\/div\u003e Part 2. Indigenous Lands and Sovereignty\u003cbr\u003e 3. Sacred Space and Identity: The Fight for Chi’\u003cbr\u003echil Biłdagoteel (Oak Flat) and the History of the San Carlos Apachean Peoples \u003cdiv\u003eMarcus C. Macktima\u003c\/div\u003e 4. Chess or Checkers?: Fracking in Greater Chaco \u003cdiv\u003eSoni Grant\u003c\/div\u003e Part 3. Urban and Rural Transformations\u003cbr\u003e 5. Westworld: Life on the High-Tech Frontier \u003cdiv\u003eStuart W. Leslie and Layne R. Karafantis\u003c\/div\u003e 6. Our Mission, No Eviction: Resisting Gentrification in San Francisco \u003cdiv\u003eLindsey Passenger Wieck\u003c\/div\u003e 7. Agritourism as Land-Saving Action in the New West \u003cdiv\u003eJeffrey M. Widener\u003c\/div\u003e Part 4. Migrant Lives and Labor\u003cbr\u003e 8. “\u003cbr\u003eA Violation of the Most Elementary Human Rights of Children”\u003cbr\u003e: The Rise of Migrant Youth Detention and Family Separation in the American West  \u003cdiv\u003eIvÓ\u003cbr\u003en Padilla-RodrÍ\u003cbr\u003eguez\u003c\/div\u003e 9. Toxins in the Field: The CRLA, Farmworker Families, and Environmental Justice in Contemporary California \u003cdiv\u003eTaylor Cozzens\u003c\/div\u003e 10. NAFTA’\u003cbr\u003es Legacy in the High Country: Mexican Migration to Colorado’\u003cbr\u003es Western Slope \u003cdiv\u003eErnesto SagÁ\u003cbr\u003es\u003c\/div\u003e Part 5. Unresolved Politics and Law\u003cbr\u003e 11. “\u003cbr\u003eI Oppose the ERA, but I Do Approve of Equal Rights for Women”\u003cbr\u003e: Gender and Politics in the Aftermath of the Equal Rights Amendment Campaign in the U.S. West \u003cdiv\u003eChelsea Ball\u003c\/div\u003e 12. LGBTQ Civil Rights in Washington State Since 1977: An Unresolved History \u003cdiv\u003ePeter Boag\u003c\/div\u003e 13. The American West, Native Americans, and Controversies over the Antiquities Act: Bears Ears National Monument, a Utah Case Study \u003cdiv\u003eAndrew Gulliford\u003c\/div\u003e Afterword \u003cdiv\u003eFrank Bergon\u003c\/div\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52600016797976,"sku":"9781496230430","price":60.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-north-american-west-in-the-twenty-first-century-hardback-9781496230430","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}