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The Pacific Northwest: An Interpretive History
By Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes
605 pages
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- Publisher:
- University of Nebraska Press
- Place of publication:
- Lincoln, NE
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Edition:
- Revised
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Synopsis
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 ...
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 Arnaldo Schwantes is a professor in the Department of History, and director of the Institute for Pacific Northwest Study, at the University of Idaho. He is the author of a number of books, including "Hard Traveling: A Portrait of Work Life in the New Northwest" (Nebraska 1995).
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents ix
- Illustrations xiii
- Preface to the Revised Edition xvii
- Preface to the First Edition xxi
- Chapter I a Sense of Place: the Essential Pacific Northwest 1
- Part I Isolation and Empire 17
- Chapter 2 the First Pacific Northwesterners 25
- Chapter 3 Encounters with a Distant Land 41
- Chapter 4 Continental Dreams and Fur Empires 53
- Part II The Pioneers' Northwest 81
- Chapter 5 Bound for the Promised Land 91
- Chapter 6 110
- Chapter 7 Growing Pains: New Territories, Gold Fever, and a Civil War 124
- Chapter 8 Holes in the Social Fabric 143
- Part III From Frontier to Urban-Industrial Society 167
- Title Page iii
- Contents ix
- Illustrations xiii
- Preface to the Revised Edition xvii
- Preface to the First Edition xxi
- Chapter I a Sense of Place: the Essential Pacific Northwest 1
- Part I Isolation and Empire 17
- Chapter 2 the First Pacific Northwesterners 25
- Chapter 3 Encounters with a Distant Land 41
- Chapter 4 Continental Dreams and Fur Empires 53
- Part II The Pioneers' Northwest 81
- Chapter 5 Bound for the Promised Land 91
- Chapter 6 110
- Chapter 7 Growing Pains: New Territories, Gold Fever, and a Civil War 124
- Chapter 8 Holes in the Social Fabric 143
- Part III From Frontier to Urban-Industrial Society 167
- Chapter 9 Metropolitan Corridors: Forging New Transportation Links 179
- Chapter 10 the Stumps of Enterprise: A Natural Resource-Based Economy 200
- Chapter II a Quickening Pace of Life: Immigration and Urban Growth 225
- Chapter 12 a Time of Testing: Omnibus States and the Excesses of the 1890s 251
- Chapter 13 Removing the Rough Edges: Society, Education, and Culture 271
- Chapter 14 Envisioning a New Northwest 287
- Part IV Progress and Its Discontents 313
- Chapter 15 Commonwealth of Toil 326
- Chapter 16 345
- Chapter 17 Birth of the Modern 363
- Part V The Pacific Northwest Comes of Age 397
- Chapter 19 from World War to Cold War 408
- Chapter 20 Roller-Coaster Years 429
- Chapter 21 454
- Chapter 22 Environment at Risk 477
- APPENDIX 523
- Suggestions for Further Reading 531