Experiences in a promised land essays in Pacific Northwest history
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The Pacific Northwest, like many other regions of the United States, has been touted as the Promised Land. As early as the 1830s, “Oregon fever” brought missionaries, promoters, speculators, politicians, and settlers to the nation’s far West. Spared the ravages of the Civil War and the scars of rapid northern industrialization, the region continued to offer Golden Opportunity. Its promise encompassed the bounties of sea and land, a mild and healthful climate, and an unusually homogeneous population. Practically since the turn of the century, the Northwest has been a region of paradoxes. Women, who in Washington had acquired suffrage and lost it in the 1880s, regained it and later elected a woman mayor of Seattle. Exploitation of workers, despite, or perhaps because of, abundance has been extreme-- and has engendered some of America’s most radical labor movements. Both racial backlash and enlightened reforms characterize the region. Until now, no single-volume history has taken up the modern issues of women, minorities, radicalism and environment. The editors of Experiences in the Promised Land, G. Thomas Edwards and Carlos Schwantes, themselves teachers and writers of Northwest history, have carefully compiled a selection of essays that treats the full scope of the region’s history, with a special emphasis on 20th century topics. They have gathered together the best of recent scholarship: the work of regional authorities as well as contributions by some of the most promising of the new generation of scholars. A variety of writing styles and approaches, subjects ranging from individual biographies to studies of broad policies and movements, a chronological organization enhanced by concise, insightful chapter commentaries, and an extensive bibliography make this volume indispensable for teachers, students, and the general reader of Northwest history. |
| Author(s): | G. Thomas Edwards, Carlos A. Schwantes |
| Document: | Book · Paperback · CIRC [ 0 ] |
| Edition: | 1st Edition |
| Published: | 1986 |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 397 pages ; 24 cm |
| Genre: | Aufsatzsammlung |
| Contents: | I. DISCOVERY, EXPLORATION, AND SETTLEMENT: Rainfall and History: Perspective on the Pacific Northwest / Richard Maxwell Brown The Role of the Hudson's Bay Company in Pacific Northwest History / Keith A. Murray A Working Hypothesis for the Study of Migrations / Dorothy O. Johnson The Indian Question in Western Oregon: The Making of a Colonial People /William G. Robbins Isaac I. Stevens and Federal Military Power in Washington Territory/ Kent D. Richards. II. FROM FRONTIER TO URBAN-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY: From Sheep Range to Agribusiness: A Case History of Agricultural Transformation on the Columbia Plateau / Alexander C. McGregor Old World Paths in the New Scandinavians Find a Familiar Home in Washington / Jorgen Dahlie Harvey Scott's "Cure for Drones": An Oregon Alternative to Public Higher Schools / Lee Nash The Seattle Ladies Musical Club, 1890-1930 / Karen J. Blair Weyerhaeuser and the Pacific Northwest Timber Industry, 1899-1903 / Robert E. Ficken III. REFORM AND REPRESSION: Dr. Ada Weed: Northwest Reformer / G. Thomas Edwards Unemployment, Disinheritance, and the Origin of Labor Militancy in the Pacific Northwest, 1885-86; Carlos A. Schwantes William S. U'Ren: A Progressive Era Personality; Robert C. Woodward Oregon's Romantic Rebels: John Reed and Charles Erskine Scott Wood; Edwin R. Bingham Everett, 1916 and After; Norman Clark Senator Harry Lane: Independent Democrat in War and Peace; Paul S. Holbo. IV. THE MODERN ERA: The Ku Klux Klan in Oregon / Eckard V. Toy Poor Men on Poor Lands: The Back-to-the-Land Movement of the Early Twentieth Century; Richard White Bertha Knight Landes: The Woman Who was Mayor ; Doris H. Pieroth Self-Help in Seattle, 1931-32: Herbert Hoover's Concept of Cooperative Individualism and the Unemployed Citizen's League ; William H. Mullins. David Beck and the Transportation Revolution in the Pacific Northwest, 1917-41; Jonathan Dembo Seattle Race Relations during the Second World War; Howard A. Droker Burlington Northern and the Legacy of Mount Saint Helens; Alfred Runte |
| Subjects: | Aufsatzsammlung, Geschichte 1830-1945, History, Northwest, Pacific History, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Northwest, 1830-1970, USA Nordweststaaten, United States, Pacific States History |
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