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Nash, Gerald David was born on July 16, 1928 in Berlin. Son of Alfred and Alice (Kantorowicz) Nash. came to the United States, 1938, naturalized, 1944.
( The vastness of the American West is apparent to anyone...)
The vastness of the American West is apparent to anyone who travels through it, but what may not be immediately obvious is the extent to which the landscape has been shaped by the U.S. government. Water development projects, military bases, and Indian reservations may interrupt the wilderness vistas, but these are only an indication of the extent to which the West has become a federal landscape. Historian Gerald Nash has written the first account of the epic growth of the economy of the American West during the twentieth century, showing how national interests shaped the West over the course of the past hundred years. In a book written for a broad readership, he tells the story of how America's hinterland became the most dynamic and rapidly growing part of the country. The Federal Landscape relates how in the nineteenth century the West was largely developed by individual enterprise but how in the twentieth Washington, D.C., became the central player in shaping the region. Nash traces the development of this process during the Progressive Era, World War I, the New Deal, World War II, the affluent postwar years, and the cold-war economy of the 1950s. He analyzes the growth of western cities and the emergence of environmental issues in the 1960s, the growth of a vibrant Mexican-U.S. border economy, and the impact of large-scale immigration from Latin America and Asia at century's end. Although specialists have studied many particular facets of western growth, Nash has written the only book to provide a much-needed overview of the subject. By addressing subjects as diverse as public policy, economic development, environmental and urban issues, and questions of race, class, and gender, he puts the entire federal landscape in perspective and shows how the West was really won. "It was the federal government that determined the pattern of farms in the humid regions, built the major roads and highways, and fostered the growth of the principle cities in the West. The federal government built the large dams and diverted important river systems throughtout the West, determined the shape of the large military reservations and their environs, and forced Native Americans to occupy the reservations on which they can be found today. The government is largely responsible for the aerospace complexes and scientific research centers that became so important in the West during the second half of the twentieth century. In short, the federal government created a federal landscape in the West." --Gerald D. Nash
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(Primarily focused on the USA during the four Roosevelt te...)
Primarily focused on the USA during the four Roosevelt terms, this book analyzes how the Great Depression and World War II irrevocably altered the political, economic, social and cultural life of Americans. Nash's narrative history also shows how both governmental and corporate bureaucracy expanded as the country became more urbanized and technologically sophisticated. This is a revised and updated edition with a new emphasis and theme.
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(The years between 1929 and 1945 were some of the most fat...)
The years between 1929 and 1945 were some of the most fateful and decisive in the history of the United States. America set a host of precedents, establishing patterns that were followed for four decades. Two major issues provided the main challenges of the era: domestic depression and foreign war. This volume helps readers understand the lasting impact of the Great Depression and World War II on the American people and to recognize that these two events irrevocably altered the political, economic, social, and cultural life of the nation and its people.
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(THE AMERICAN WEST chronicles one of the most dynamic regi...)
THE AMERICAN WEST chronicles one of the most dynamic regions in the United States, focusing on the people who developed it in the half century after 1945. The book treats both the many accomplishments and the major problems that developed during that 50 years of growth.
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Nash, Gerald David was born on July 16, 1928 in Berlin. Son of Alfred and Alice (Kantorowicz) Nash. came to the United States, 1938, naturalized, 1944.
Bachelor of Arts, New York University, 1950; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1952; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1957.
Instructor history, Stanford University, 1957-1958;
visiting assistant professor, Stanford University, 1959-1960;
assistant professor, Northern Illinois U., DeKalb, 1958-1959;
postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University, 1960-1961;
member of faculty, U. New Mexico, Albuquerque, since 1961;
professor of history, U. New Mexico, since 1968;
department chairman, U. New Mexico, 1974-1980;
Presidential professor, U. New Mexico, 1985-1990;
Distinguished professor, U. New Mexico, since 1990. Faculty research lecturer, 1970. Visiting associate professor New York University, 1965-1966.
George Bancroft professor American History U. Goettingen, Federal Republic Germany, 1990-1991.
(Primarily focused on the USA during the four Roosevelt te...)
( The vastness of the American West is apparent to anyone...)
(THE AMERICAN WEST chronicles one of the most dynamic regi...)
(The years between 1929 and 1945 were some of the most fat...)
(A short history of Twentieth-Century America.)
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Member American History Association, Organization American Historians, Business History Society, Agricultural History Society, Western History Association, Phi Beta Kappa. Clubs: Commonwealth.
Son of Alfred and Alice (Kantorowicz) N. M. Marie L. Norris, August 19, 1967. 1 daughter, Stephanie Annual.