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

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Modern American West.
Main Author: Hurt, R. Douglas
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2011], ©2011.
Series:Modern American West.
Subjects:
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.
Physical Description:xv, 315 pages : illustrations, maps.
Format: Book
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.