Sökt på: Hal K. Rothman
totalt 13 träffar
On Rims and Ridges
'A fine environmental history...Known more for its role in the development of the atomic bomb than for its natural resources, the Los Alamos area characterizes the struggle between …
Devil's Bargains
The American West has always been seen as a land of opportunity, but tourism has transformed it into a land of opportunism. From Sun Valley to Santa Fe, towns all over the region …
On Rims and Ridges
New Mexico’s Pajarito Plateau encompasses the Bandelier National Monument and the atomic city of Los Alamos. On Rims and Ridges throws into stark relief what happens when native …
Blazing Heritage
National parks played a unique role in the development of wildfire management on American public lands. With a different mission and powerful meaning to the public, the national …
Blazing Heritage
National parks played a unique role in the development of wildfire management on American public lands. With a different mission and powerful meaning to the public, the national …
Death Valley National Park
The first comprehensive study of the park, past and present, Death Valley National Park probes the environmental and human history of this most astonishing desert. Established as a …
Saving the Planet
Since 1900 Americans’ attitudes toward the world they inhabit have changed as greatly as their own way of life. As their pace quickened, as they left the rural world of their …
The Making of Modern Nevada
Nevada has always been different from other states. Almost from its beginning, Nevada sanctioned behaviors considered immoral elsewhere—gambling, prize-fighting, brothels, easy …
Playing the Odds
"e;This collection of Hal Rothman's wide-ranging, brash, and brilliant essays on Las Vegas offers up a treasury of insights on the follies and possibilities of the New West. …
LBJ's Texas White House
"By centering imaginatively around the ranch and its environs in that unique American region of the Hill Country of Texas, Rothman offers a useful approach to understanding the …
The Culture of Tourism, the Tourism of Culture
The Southwest has long been one of America's dreamscapes, a place we go to relive and reinvent our past for the purposes of the present. Yet the Southwest is a real place, too, one …
Playing the Odds
"This collection of Hal Rothman's wide-ranging, brash, and brilliant essays on Las Vegas offers up a treasury of insights on the follies and possibilities of the New West. …