Power and Place in the North American West

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Richard White and John M. Findlay Klappentext Western historians continue to seek new ways of understanding the particular mixture of physical territory, human actions, outside influences, and unique expectations that has made the North American West what it is today. This collection of twelve essays tackles the subject of power and place from several angles-Indians and non-Indians, race and gender, environment and economy-to gain insight into major forces at work during two centuries of western history. The essays, related to one another by their concern with how power is exercised in, over, and by western places, cover a wide range of times and topics, from 18th-century Spanish New Mexico to 19th-century British Columbia to 20th-century Sun Valley and Los Angeles. They encompass analyses of the concept and rhetoric of race, theoretical speculations on gender and powerlessness, and insights on the causes of current environmental crises. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction PART 1: INDIANS AND NON-INDIANS Coboway's Tale: A Story of Power and Place Along the Columbia Violence, Justice, and State Power in the New Mexican Borderlands, 1780-1880 Making "Indians" in British Columbia: Power, Race, and the Importance of Place PART 2: RACE IN THE URBAN WEST Federal Power and Racial Politics in Los Angeles During World War II Race, Rhetoric, and Regional Identity: Boosting Los Angeles, 1880-1930 Recasting Identities: American-born Chinese and Nisei in the Era of the Pacific War PART 3: ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMY Tourism as Colonial Economy: Power and Place in Western Tourism Creating Wealth by Consuming Place: Timber Management on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest "Politics Is at the Bottom of the Whole Thing": Spatial Relations of Power in Oregon Salmon Management Natures Industries: The Rhetoric of Industrialism in the Oregon Country PART 4: GENDER IN THE URBAN WEST Lighting Out for the Territory: Women, Mobility and Western Place Contributors Index ...

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• Authors: Richard Findlay White
• Assisted by: John M Findlay (Editor), John M. Findlay (Editor), Richard White (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9780295996639
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99663-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography; Emil and Kathleen Sick Series in Western History and Biography; Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Se; Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography; Emil and Kathleen Sick Book We; Power and Place in the North American West; Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and BiographyEmil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and BiographyEmil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biograph
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