| Description |
1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Three ranches in Nevada. 1. Winning by threat of force: the Bundy family -- 2. Losing in the courts: the Hage and Dann families -- Part II. The sagebrush rebellion. 3. "This precious heritage of desert" -- 4. Sagebrush rebels and the new face of conservative politics -- Part III. The war for the West. 5. "Spitting mad" -- 6. "Weirdness in the West" -- Part IV. The patriot rebellion. 7. Glenn Beck's common sense -- 8. Popular constitutionalism applied -- 9. "The revolution was ... weird" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected works cited -- Index |
| Summary |
"This Land Is My Land traces three periods of conservative rebellion against federal land authority over the last forty years-the Sagebrush Rebellion (1979-1982), the War for the West (1991-2000), and the Patriot Rebellion (2009-2016)-showing 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. It explains how Western federal land issues were integrated into national conservative politics, and how federal land issues became inseparably linked to a wide range of constitutional issues, such as freedom of religious expression, private property rights, and gun rights. As a result, federal land issues became flashpoints in conservative status politics and American civil religion, leading to armed standoffs between citizens and federal law enforcement officers in 2014, 2015, and 2016. These conflicts illustrate both the profound challenges in multiple-use management of federal land and the violent potential in American civil religion"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record; onlne resource viewed August 4, 2021 |
| Subject |
Public lands -- West (U.S.)
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Land use -- Government policy -- West (U.S.)
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Civil religion -- West (U.S.)
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Government, Resistance to -- West (U.S.)
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Civil religion
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Government, Resistance to
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Land use -- Government policy
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Politics and government
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Public lands
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410
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United States
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West United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197500712 |
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0197500714 |
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9780197500729 |
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0197500722 |
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9780197500705 |
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0197500706 |
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