Power lines : Phoenix and the making of the modern southwest /
In 1940, Phoenix was a small, agricultural city of sixty-five thousand, and the Navajo Reservation was an open landscape of scattered sheepherders. Forty years later, Phoenix had blossomed into a metropolis of 1.5 million people and the territory of the Navajo Nation was home to two of the largest s...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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Table of Contents:
- Fragments: A region of fragments
- Demand: The valley of the sun ; Turquoise and turboprops
- Supply: Modernizing the Navajo ; Integrating geographies
- Protest: The living river ; A piece of the action
- Conclusion: "Good bye, big sky."