Power and Place in the North American West

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ISBN: 9780295977737 | 0295977736
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Copyright: 12/1/1999

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Richard White is professor of history at Stanford University. John M. Findlay is professor of history and director of the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest at the University of Washington.

Introduction

John M. Finday

Richard White

PART I INDIANS AND NON-INDIANS

Coboway's Tale: A Story of Power and Places Along the Columbia

(20)

James P. Ronda

Violence, Justice, and State Power in the New Mexican Borderlands, 1780-1880

(38)

James F. Brooks

Making ``Indians'' in British Columbia: Power, Race, and the Importance of Place

(26)

John Lutz

PART II RACE IN THE URBAN WEST

Federal Power and Racial Politics in Los Angeles during World War II

(30)

Kevin Allen Leonard

Race, Rhetoric, and Regional Identity: Boosting Los Angeles, 1880-1930

117

(27)

William Deverell

Douglas Flamming

Recasting Indentities: American-born Chinese and Nisei in the Era of the Pacific War

144

(33)

Chris Friday

PART III ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMY

Tourism as Colonial Economy: Power and Place in Western Tourism

177

(27)

Hal Rothman

Creating Wealth by Consuming Place: Timber Management on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest

204

(29)

Paul W. Hirt

``Politics Is at the Bottom of the Whole Thing'': Spatial Relations of Power in Oregon Salmon Management

233

(31)

Joseph E. Taylor III

Nature's Industries: The Rhetoric of Industrialism in the Oregon Country

264

(23)

William G. Robbins

PART IV GENDER IN THE URBAN WEST

Lighting Out for the Territory: Women, Mobility, and Western Place

287

(17)

Virginia Scharff

Contributors

304

(3)

Index

307

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