Power Lines : Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest /

"In 1940, Phoenix was a small, agricultural city of 65,000, and the Navajo Reservation was an open landscape of scattered sheepherders. Forty years later, Phoenix had blossomed into a metropolis of 1.5 million people and the territory of the Navajo Nation was home to two of the largest strip mi...

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Tác giả chính: Needham, Andrew, 1971- (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Princeton : Princeton University Press [2014]
Loạt:Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt6wpxx8
Mục lục:
  • Introduction : Beyond the Crabgrass Frontier
  • Part I: Fragments. Chapter 1: A Region of Fragments
  • Part II: Demand
  • Chapter 2: The Valley of the Sun
  • Chapter 3: Turquoise and Turboprops
  • PART III: Supply. Chapter 4: Modernizing the Navajo
  • Chapter 5: Integrating Geographies
  • Part IV: Protest. Chapter 6: The Living River
  • Chapter 7: A Piece of the Action
  • Conclusion: "Good Bye, Big Sky": Coal and Postwar America
  • Abbreviations of Sources and Collections
  • Notes
  • Index.