The Pacific Northwest : an interpretive history

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Title:

The Pacific Northwest : an interpretive history

Author:

Schwantes, Carlos A., 1945- author.

Edition:

Rev. and enl. ed.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 568 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Geographic Term:

Northwest, Pacific -- History.

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

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Publication Date:

1996

ISBN:

9780803242258

9780803292284

Publication Information:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1996.

Call Number:

979.5 SCHWANT

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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.

Preface to the Revised Edition	p. xvii
Preface to the First Edition	p. xxi
Chapter I a Sense of Place: the Essential Pacific Northwest	p. 1
Part I Isolation and Empire	p. 17
Chapter 2 The First Pacific Northwesterners	p. 25
Chapter 3 Encounters with a Distant Land	p. 41
Chapter 4 Continental Dreams and Fur Empires	p. 53
Part II The Pioneers' Northwest	p. 81
Chapter 5 Bound for the Promised Land	p. 91
Chapter 6 p. 110
Chapter 7 Growing Pains: New Territories, Gold Fever, and a Civil War	p. 124
Chapter 8 Holes in the Social Fabric	p. 143
Part III From Frontier to Urban-Industrial Society	p. 167
Chapter 9 Metropolitan Corridors: Forging New Transportation Links	p. 179
Chapter 10 the Stumps of Enterprise: a Natural Resource-Based Economy	p. 200
Chapter 11 a Quickening Pace of Life: Immigration and Urban Growth	p. 225
Chapter 12 a Time of Testing: Omnibus States and the Excesses of the 1890s	p. 251
Chapter 13 Removing the Rough Edges: Society, Education, and Culture	p. 271
Chapter 14 Envisioning a New Northwest	p. 287
Part IV Progress and Its Discontents	p. 313
Chapter 15 Commonwealth of Toil	p. 326
Chapter 16 p. 345
Chapter 17 Birth of the Modern	p. 363
Part V The Pacific Northwest Comes of Age	p. 397
Chapter 19 from World War to Cold War	p. 408
Chapter 20 Roller-Coaster Years	p. 429
Chapter 21 p. 454
Chapter 22 Environment at Risk	p. 477
Appedix	p. 523
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 531

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