Power and Place in the North American West

by White, Richard; Findlay, John M.

• ISBN13: 9780295977737
• ISBN10: 0295977736
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
John M. Finday
Richard White
PART I INDIANS AND NON-INDIANS
Coboway's Tale: A Story of Power and Places Along the Columbia	3	(20)
James P. Ronda
Violence, Justice, and State Power in the New Mexican Borderlands, 1780-1880	23	(38)
James F. Brooks
Making ``Indians'' in British Columbia: Power, Race, and the Importance of Place	61	(26)
John Lutz
PART II RACE IN THE URBAN WEST
Federal Power and Racial Politics in Los Angeles during World War II	87	(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