This Land is My Land
«This is an excellent analysis of the dynamics of anti-government sentiment in many western states.»
R. Heineman, emeritus, Alfred University, CHOICE
Among American conservatives, the right to own property free from the meddling hand of the state is one of the most sacred rights of all. But the in the American West, the federal government owns and oversees vast patches of land, complicating the narrative of western individualism and private property rights. Les mer
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In This Land Is My Land, James R. Skillen tells the story of conservative rebellion against federal land management in the America West over the last forty years, which has ranged from legal action to armed confrontations. He traces the most recent waves of conservative rebellion against federal land authority-the Sagebrush Rebellion (1979-1982), the War for the West (1991-2000), and the Patriot Rebellion (2009-2016)-and shows how they evolved from a regional rebellion waged by
westerners with material interests in federal lands to a national rebellion against the federal administrative state. Cumulatively, Skillen's account explains how the civil religion and constitutional nationalism in which ranchers, miners, and other traditional federal land users became powerful symbols of
conservative American and how federal land issues became inseparably linked to property rights, gun rights, and religious express.
Not just a book about property rights battles over western lands, This Land is My Land reveals how evolving rebellions in the west provide insight for understanding the conservative coalition that elected President Donald J. Trump in 2016.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780197500699
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 16 x 24 cm
Anmeldelser
«This is an excellent analysis of the dynamics of anti-government sentiment in many western states.»
R. Heineman, emeritus, Alfred University, CHOICE
«Skillen rises to the challenge in this study ... a major contribution of Skillen's analysis: his success at connecting local public-lands issues with divisions in national politics and the underlayment of the culture wars that mark rural-versus-urban tensions.»
William D. Rowley, Nevada State Historical Quarterly