"Ten widely-recognized historians from the United States and Canada present thought provoking insights about society, culture, and change in the great, resource-laden Northwest. Essays examine early Spanish exploration of the Northern coast; the long-term relationship of a fragile Canadian union with its powerful southern neighbor; regional novelists and literature; important aspects of black and white immigration; the iconography of nuclear energy; and the continuing interaction of the region's many Indian reservations with the dominant society's economic, conservation, and legal institutions."--BOOK JACKET

Aufsatzsammlung, États-Unis (Nord-Ouest) et Canada (Sud-Ouest) Histoire, Geschichte, History, Northwest, Pacific History, Pacific Northwest, Pazifischer Raum Nordwest

Foreword: Terra Pacifica / Paul W. Hirt Sect. 1. Regions, Nations, and Global Relations I. The Spanish Moment in the Pacific Northwest / David J. Weber II. Inventing the Pacific Northwest Novelists and the Region's History / Richard W. Etulain III. The Significance of Hanford in American History / Patricia Nelson Limerick IV. Two Faces West: The Development Myth in Canada and the United States / Donald Worster V. From [actual symbol not reproducible] to Free Trade: Relations between the American Northwest and Western Canada / Gerald Friesen VI. A Matter of Context: The Pacific Northwest in World History / Kenneth S. Coates Sect. 2. Natives and Newcomers VII. "The Heathen Are Far Different from What You Imagine": The Life of Narcissa Whitman / Julie Roy Jeffrey VIII. Pacific Northwest Indians and the Bill of Rights / John R. Wunder IX. "Too Little, Too Late": Annie Pike Greenwood. Failed Sagebrush Pioneer / Susan H. Armitage X. "There Was No Better Place to Go" The Transformation Thesis Revisited: African-American Migration to the Pacific Northwest, 1940-1950 / Quintard Taylor