Terra Pacifica : people and place in the northwest states and western Canada

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Terra Pacifica : people and place in the northwest states and western Canada / edited by Paul W. Hirt.

Hirt, Paul W., 1954- (editor.).

Summary:

"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.

Record details

ISBN: 0874221633
ISBN: 9780874221633
ISBN: 0874221625
ISBN: 9780874221626
Physical Description: xvii, 223 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Publisher: Pullman : Washington State University Press, ©1998.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:: 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.