History 162: Lecture 17

History 263: Readings in Frontier and Western History



History 162: Lecture 17
GUNBELT AND SUNBELT:
THE WEST AND WASHINGTON IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

  1. Dependence and Resentment
    1. Growing Up Together: The Federal Government and the West
    2. "Plundered Province" Rhetoric and Western Political Culture
      1. Denouncing Wall Street and Washington
      2. The Power of Myth

  2. Great Depression and World War
    1. Depression and Deportation
    2. The New Deal: "A Good Deal for the West"
    3. World War II and the Transformation of the West
    4. Westering in the Mid-Twentieth Century

  3. Cold War and the Expansion of the Gunbelt
    1. Westering in the Post-War Era
    2. Priming the Pump

  4. Oasis Civilizations and Crabgrass Frontiers: The Expansion of the Metropolitan West




Visuals


U.S. Metropolitan Growth, 1940-1980


Western States: Rates of Growth


Major Military Installations and Related Institutions, 1992