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Nevada : a history of the Silver State / Michael S. Green.

By: Publisher: Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2015]Description: xvi, 505 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780874179736 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780874179804 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 979.3 23
LOC classification:
  • F841.3 .G73 2015
Contents:
Understanding the place -- Before Euro-American settlement -- Explorers, emigrants, and expansion -- Building up to a crisis -- The Civil War and Nevada -- The nineteenth-century mining boom -- Boom, bust, and reform -- A new century, a new boom -- Making progress -- From Roaring Twenties to Depression and change -- The federal landscape, 1933-1945 -- The postwar boom, 1946-1958 -- Reshaping Nevada, 1958-1970 -- Conservative Nevada, changing nevada, 1971-89 -- A troubled boom, 1989-2001 -- Nevada in the twenty-first century.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Understanding the place -- Before Euro-American settlement -- Explorers, emigrants, and expansion -- Building up to a crisis -- The Civil War and Nevada -- The nineteenth-century mining boom -- Boom, bust, and reform -- A new century, a new boom -- Making progress -- From Roaring Twenties to Depression and change -- The federal landscape, 1933-1945 -- The postwar boom, 1946-1958 -- Reshaping Nevada, 1958-1970 -- Conservative Nevada, changing nevada, 1971-89 -- A troubled boom, 1989-2001 -- Nevada in the twenty-first century.

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