A land apart
Subtitle: the Southwest and the nation in the twentieth century
By: Flannery Burke
Series: The modern American West; Modern American West
Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9780816535613; 9780816528417
Subjects: Hispanic Americans; Indians of North America; History
Other titles: Southwest and the nation in the twentieth century
Description: "A new kind of history of the Southwest (mainly New Mexico and Arizona) that foregrounds the stories of Latino and Indigenous peoples who made the Southwest matter to the nation in the twentieth century"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-402) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Borders. A place by itself, 1912-1929 ; The story attached to it, 1929-2000; title: Part II. Indian country. Nations, tribes, communities, and towns, 1876-1935 ; The story still being told, 1940-2000; title: Part III. Reducing to possession. The searchers: race and tourism in the Southwest ; Own it: race, place, and belonging; title: Part IV. The theater of all possibilities. Boom towns: the nuclear Southwest ; Water is the Earth's blood.