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Terra Northwest : interpreting people and place

Title
Terra Northwest : interpreting people and place / edited by David H. Stratton.
Publication
Pullman, Wash. : WSU Press/Washington State University Press, ©2007.

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Stratton, David H. (David Hodges), 1927-
Description
xi, 220 pages; 23 cm
Summary
  • "Eleven experts from the United States and Canada explore society, culture, and change in the great, resource-laden Northwest. Essays examine European coastal exploration, American and Canadian comparative development, political and constitutional foundations, economic globalization; gendered and class history, and perspectives on the region's Native American, black, Asian American, and Hispanic citizenry. Included are contributions by Susan Armitage, Kenneth S. Coates, James M. Dolliver, Gordon Hirabayashi, Alvin M. Josephy Jr., Howard R. Lamar, John McClelland Jr., E. Mark Moreno, Quintard Taylor, David J. Weber, and Donald Worster.
  • Terra Northwest continues the Sherman and Mabel Smith Pettyjohn Lecture Series of publications examining essential aspects of Northwest history."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Social ecology > Northwest, Pacific
  • Social ecology
  • Social conditions
  • Northwest, Pacific > History
  • Northwest, Pacific > History, Local
  • Northwest, Pacific > Social conditions
  • Pacific Northwest
  • Pazifischer Raum > Nordwest
Genre/Form
  • History.
  • Local history.
Note
  • "Sherman and Mabel Smith Pettyjohn Distinguished Lecture Series publications"--P. [ii].
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Spanish moment in the Pacific Northwest / David J. Weber -- Two faces West : the development of myth in Canada and the United States / Donald Worster -- Almost Columbia, triumphantly Washington / John McClelland Jr. -- Statehood : symbol of a new era / Howard R. Lamar -- Matter of context : the Pacific Northwest in world history / Kenneth S. Coates -- American Indian and freedom of religion : an historic appraisal / Alvin M. Josephy Jr. -- Mind of the founders : an assessment of the Washington Constitution of 1889 / James M. Dolliver -- Growing up American in the Pacific Northwest / Gordon Hirabayashi -- "There was no better place to go" : African-American migration, 1940-1950 / Quintard Taylor -- Mexican-American street gangs, migration, and violence in the Yakima Valley / E. Mark Moreno -- Rethinking the region : gender, race, and class in Pacific Northwest history / Susan Armitage.
ISBN
  • 9780874222913
  • 0874222915
LCCN
2007029985
OCLC
  • ocn148840680
  • 148840680
  • SCSB-1479488
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library