DIGIRENT - Books, Bluster, and Bounty: Local Politics and Carnegie Library Building Grants in the Intermountain West, 1890-1920
Susan H. Swetnam
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Books, Bluster, and Bounty: Susan H. Swetnam epub Books, Bluster, and Bounty: Susan H. Swetnam pdf download Books, Bluster, and Bounty: Susan H. Swetnam pdf file Books, Bluster, and Bounty: Susan H. Swetnam audiobook Books, Bluster, and Bounty: Susan H. Swetnam book review Books, Bluster, and Bounty: Susan H. Swetnam summary | #3595138 in Books | 2012-04-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.10 x6.00l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 208 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Wonderful library history|By Mary Ellen Armentrout|As a fellow Carnegie library historian, this book was mandatory reading for me. The author not only delves into the buildings themselves but into the political and social history surrounding them. Great reading for anyone interested in library history and life in the west during the late 1800s and early 1900s.||
". . . a sleeper hit."|—Jeff Nichols, Utah Historical Quarterly
Books, Bluster, and Bounty examines a cross-section of Carnegie library applications to determine how local support was mustered for cultural institutions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century West. This comparative study considers 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 Ne...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Books, Bluster, and Bounty: Local Politics and Carnegie Library Building Grants in the Intermountain West, 1890-1920 | Susan H. Swetnam. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
