Pacific Northwest An Interpretive History

Name: Pacific Northwest An Interpretive History
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ISBN: 9780803292284

ISBN-10: 0803292287

ISBN-13: 9780803292284

Edition: 2nd 1996

Authors: Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes, Carlos Schwantes

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Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes has revised and expanded the entire work, which is still the most comprehensive and balanced history of the region. This edition contains significant additional material on early mining in the Pacific Northwest, sea routes to Oregon in the early discovery and contact period, the environment of the region, the impact of the Klondike gold rush, and politics since 1945. Recent environmental controversies, such as endangered salmon runs and the spotted owl dispute, have been addressed, as has the effect of the Cold War on the region’s economy. The author has also expanded discussion of the roles of women and minorities and updated statistical information. Carlos…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 6/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 570
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.00" long x 1.24" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes is the St. Louis Mercantile Library Endowed Professor of Transportation Studies and the West at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.



Preface to the Revised Edition


Preface to the First Edition



a Sense of Place: the Essential Pacific Northwest



Isolation and Empire



The First Pacific Northwesterners



Encounters with a Distant Land



Continental Dreams and Fur Empires



The Pioneers' Northwest



Bound for the Promised Land






Growing Pains: New Territories, Gold Fever, and a Civil War



Holes in the Social Fabric



From Frontier to Urban-Industrial Society



Metropolitan Corridors: Forging New Transportation Links



the Stumps of Enterprise: a Natural Resource-Based Economy



a Quickening Pace of Life: Immigration and Urban Growth



a Time of Testing: Omnibus States and the Excesses of the 1890s



Removing the Rough Edges: Society, Education, and Culture



Envisioning a New Northwest



Progress and Its Discontents



Commonwealth of Toil






Birth of the Modern



The Pacific Northwest Comes of Age



from World War to Cold War



Roller-Coaster Years






Environment at Risk


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Suggestions for Further Reading