A Colorado History, 10th Edition

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Experience Colorado with this new, expanded edition of A Colorado History. For fifty years, the authors of this preeminent resource haveled readers on an extraordinary exploration of how the state has changed-and how it has stayed the [...] engaging narrative, A Colorado History begins with the prehistoric cliff dwellers of Mesa Verde and proceeds chronologically with accounts of Colorado's role as a frontier territory—its fur trade, mining, Indian relations, cattle ranching, and homesteading—and continues to the present day political, economic, cultural, and environmental issues. Fascinating, informative, and accessible to history buffs, students, researchers—or anyone—interested in the remarkable story of a remarkable place. The tenth edition features a new chapter on recent events, new photos, and an updated bibliography section.

Über den Autor

CARL UBBELOHDE was the Henry Eldridge Bourne Professor of History Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Preface
Prologue: The Land

1. A Prehistoric Prelude: The Dwellers in the Cliffs
2. A Spanish Borderland
3. Exploring Louisiana
4. The Fur Frontier
5. The Frontier in Transition
6. Gold Rush
7. Miners and Merchants
8. Culture Comes to the Gold Towns
9. Legal Beginnings
10. Battlegrounds
11. Smelters and Railroads
12. Utopias in the Desert
13. Carpetbagger's Kingdom
14. The Centennial State
15. Carbonate Camps
16. Open Range Days
17. Beyond the Continental Divide
18. Ditchdiggers and Sodbusters
19. New Frontiers
20. Politics and Populists
21. The Silver Crusade
22. The Good Old Days
23. The Era of Industrial Warfare
24. Water and Sugar
25. The Progressive Era
26. State and Nation
27. The Twenties
28. Depression Decade
29. Life in Colorado Between Two Wars
30. Decades of Boom, Years of Bust
31. Colorado and the Nation
32. Urban Colorado
33. The Old and the New
34. "We Can't Remember Who We Were Tomorrow"
35. Colorado in the New Millennium
36. Fire and Water
37. "Today Is Going To Be Long Long Ago"

Suggested Reading
Colorado's Governors, Senators, and Congressional
Representatives (Chronological List)
Picture Credits
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780871083197
ISBN-10:	0871083191
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Ubbelohde, Carl Benson, Maxine Smith, Duane A.
Hersteller:	WestWinds Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 27 mm
Von/Mit:	Carl Ubbelohde (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.11.2015
Gewicht:	0,725 kg