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Trouble in the forest : California's redwood timber wars / Richard Widick.

Title
Trouble in the forest : California's redwood timber wars / Richard Widick.
Author
Widick, Richard.
Publication
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.

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Description
xxiv, 353 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.
Subject
  • Anti-environmentalism > California
  • Ecoterrorism > California
  • Environmentalism > Social aspects > California
  • Forest conservation > California > Citizen participation
  • Logging > California
  • Redwood industry > Social aspects > California
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Map of Humboldt County, California -- Entry point : mapping the Humboldt Bay region -- Introduction. The case of Humboldt : violence, archive, and memory in the redwood timber wars -- 1. Power and resistance in redwood country : Maxxam versus the Forest Defense -- 2. Convoking the opposition : one year and counting in the branches of Luna -- 3. Everybody needs a home : speaking up for workers, owners, and the company town of Scotia -- 4. Indian trouble : the colonizing culture of capitalism -- 5. Labor trouble : capitalism, work, and resistance in the redwoods -- 6. Trouble in the forest : Earth First!, Redwood Summer, and the Alliance to Save Headwaters -- Conclusion. Living in the archive of the redwood imaginary.
ISBN
  • 9780816653249 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 0816653240 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 9780816653256 (pb : alk. paper)
  • 0816653259 (pb : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2009028397
  • 40017166661
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Columbia University Libraries