The awkward state of Utah
Subtitle: coming of age in the nation, 1896-1945
By: Charles S. Peterson and Brian Q. Cannon
Contributors: Cannon, Brian Q.; Utah State Historical Society
Publisher: The University of Utah Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9781607814214; 9781607814221
Subjects: Politics and government; Economic conditions; History
Description: Politics at the turn of the century -- Politics in the progressive era -- Agriculture in the new state -- Industrial development in the progressive era -- The formation of the wageworkers' Frontier -- The torturous maturation of an industrial workforce -- At the whiplash end of pluralism: Indians in the new state -- Changing federalism: the outdoors and its management -- Water for an arid state -- Utah in the 1920s -- Hard times: weathering the Great Depression -- Utah encounters the New Deal -- Simply revolutionary: Utahns confront the Second World War -- Conclusion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Politics at the turn of the century; title: Politics in the progressive era; title: Agriculture in the new state; title: Industrial development in the progressive era; title: The formation of the wageworkers? Frontier; title: The torturous maturation of an industrial workforce; title: At the whiplash end of pluralism: Indians in the new state; title: Changing federalism: the outdoors and its management; title: Water for an arid state; title: Utah in the 1920s; title: Hard times: weathering the Great Depression; title: Utah encounters the New Deal; title: Simply revolutionary: Utahns confront the Second World War; title: Conclusion.