Nevada a history of the Silver State /
"Michael S. Green, a leading Nevada historian, provides a detailed survey of the Silver State's past, from the arrival of the early European explorers, to the predominance of mining in the 1800s, to the rise of world-class tourism in the twentieth century, and to more recent attempts to di...
| Main Author: | Green, Michael S. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Reno :
University of Nevada Press,
[2015]
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| Physical Description: |
xvi, 505 pages ; 24 cm. |
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Table of 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, 1933-45
- The postwar boom, 1946-58
- Reshaping Nevada, 1958-70
- Conservative Nevada, changing Nevada, 1971-89
- A troubled boom, 1989-2001
- Nevada in the twenty-first century.