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"Phoenix, Arizona, if it is to live up to its name, has four hundred years before it burns and then rises from its own ashes. In the meantime, visitors and residents exposed to the city's summer temperatures have cause to think that the legend is fulfilled. In fact the city did spring from the ashes of an earlier civilization. The Hohokam, who vanished mysteriously, left a brilliantly engineered system of canals and irrigation ditches, and when westward-moving Anglo-Americans found these, cleaned them out, and began farming and ranching, the future of Phoenix was secured."--BOOK JACKET. "The twelve contributors to this volume have told the story of the city. Each writes about a facet of Phoenix: its economy, its elites, its women, its ethnic groups, its water- and labor-management problems, its development and transportation growing pains, its politics, and its never-ending drive to become as important as Los Angeles and Dallas."--BOOK JACKET. "Today Phoenix suffers the same growing pains it had in its youth. Industrial, agricultural, and business enterprises drawn to the city during the two world wars, but particularly during World War II, have grown and attracted still more of th

Author

Johnson, Wesley Jr

Publisher

University of Oklahoma Press; Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780806124681

Subjects

History, Philosophy, Humanities