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Books, bluster, and bounty: local politics in the Intermountain West and Carnegie library building grants, 1898-1920

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dc.contributor.authorSwetnam, Susan H., author
dc.contributor.authorUtah State University Press, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:47:57Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T05:47:57Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references and index.
dc.description.abstractSusan Swetnam uses case studies of western applications for Carnegie libraries to examine how local support was mustered for cultural institutions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century interior West. This is a comparative study involving the entire region between the Rockies and the Cascades/Sierras, including all of Idaho, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona, western Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado, eastern Oregon and Washington and small parts of California and New Mexico. The study addresses not just the how of the process of establishing Carnegie libraries but, more importantly, the variable why. Although virtually all citizens and communities in the West who sought Carnegie libraries were after tangible benefits that were only tangentially related to books, what they specifically wanted varied in correlation with the diversity of the communities of the West: Library proponents in Inland Empire boom towns, for example, touted Carnegie libraries to their fellow citizens as instruments of economic advantage over rival communities citizens in rural LDS communities promoted Carnegie libraries as a force against the encroaching secular influences they feared threatened their children a small cadre of Carnegie library proponents in several of Utah's largest cities, in stark contrast, actually promoted the projects to their fellow Gentiles as a corrective to LDS insularity. Economically stable Idaho communities sought Carnegie libraries to reinforce their self-perceived cultural superiority communities in newly American Arizona sought them to counter perceptions of their towns as 'Hispanic mud villages.' And so on'.--Provided by publisher.
dc.format.mediumborn digital
dc.format.mediumbooks
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/88098
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofUtah State University Press
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dc.rights.accessAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University Denver, Regis University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University and Western Colorado University communities only.
dc.subject.lcshCarnegie libraries -- West (U.S.) -- History
dc.titleBooks, bluster, and bounty: local politics in the Intermountain West and Carnegie library building grants, 1898-1920
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