Title Power and place in the North American West / edited by Richard White and John M. Findlay

Published Seattle : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, [1999] ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 312 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Emil and Kathleen Sick Lecture-Book Series in Western History and Biography Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography. Contents Introduction / John M. Findlay and Richard White ; Part I: Indians and Non-Indians ; Coboway's Tale: A Story of Power and Places Along the Columbia / James P. Ronda ; Violence, Justice, and State Power in the New Mexican Borderlands, 1780-1880 / James F. Brooks ; Making ""Indians"" in British Columbia: Power, Race, and the Importance of PLace / John Lutz ; Part II: Race in the Urban West ; Federal Power and Racial Politics in Los Angeles during World War II / Kevin Allen Leonard Nature's Industries: The Rhetoric of Industrialism in the Oregon Country / William G. Robbins Part IV: Gender in the Urban West ; Lighting Out for the Territory: Women, Mobility, and Western Place / Virginia Scharff ; Contributors ; Index Race, Rhetoric, and Regional Identity: Boosting Los Angeles, 1880-1930 / William Deverell and Douglas Flamming Recasting Idenitites: American-born Chinese and Nisei in the Era of the Pacific War / Chris Friday ; Part III: Environment and Economy ; Tourism as Colonial Economy: Power and Place in Western Tourism / Hal Rothman ; Creating Wealth by Consuming Place: Timber Management on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest / Paul W. Hirt ; ""Politics Is at the Bottom of the Whole Thing"" : Spatial Relations of Power in Oregon Salmon Management / Joseph E. Taylor III Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Human geography -- Canada, Western -- Congresses. Human geography -- West (U.S.) -- Congresses. Power (Social sciences) -- Canada, Western -- Congresses. Power (Social sciences) -- West (U.S.) -- Congresses. Canada, Western -- Economic conditions -- Congresses. Canada, Western -- History -- Congresses. Canada, Western -- Social conditions -- Congresses. West (U.S.) -- Economic conditions -- Congresses. West (U.S.) -- History -- Congresses. West (U.S.) -- Social conditions -- Congresses. Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings. History. Conference papers and proceedings. Form Electronic book Author Findlay, John M., 1955- White, Richard, 1947- LC no. 98031496 ISBN 0295802200 (electronic bk.) 0295977744 (cloth ; alk. paper) 9780295802206 (electronic bk.) 9780295977744 (cloth ; alk. paper)

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