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Author:

Hurt, R. Douglas.

Title:

The Big Empty : the Great Plains in the twentieth century / R. Douglas Hurt.

Publisher:

University of Arizona Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xv, 315 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Great Plains--Politics and government--20th century.
Great Plains--Social conditions--20th century.
Social change--Great Plains--History--20th century.
Ethnicity--Great Plains--History--20th century.
Cultural pluralism--Great Plains--History--20th century.
Agriculture--Great Plains--History--20th century.
Great Plains--Economic conditions--20th century.
Great Plains--Environmental conditions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The age of optimism -- The ethnic and racial divide -- The age of uncertainty -- The anxious years -- The age of certainty -- The perils of agriculture -- The inevitability of change -- The politics of race and agriculture -- Epilogue.

Series:

The modern American West

ISBN:

0816529728 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780816529728 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0816529701 (hard cover : alk. paper)
9780816529704 (hard cover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)710816106

LCCN:

2011010715

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)