Terra Northwest
Subtitle: Interpreting People and Place
Publisher: Washington State University; WSU Press/Washington State University Press
Published: October 26, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780874222913
Subjects: Sociology (General); U.S. Local History - Pacific Northwest States; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; Canada - General; United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest; General; History; History, Local; Northwest, Pacific; Social ecology
Description: "Eleven experts from the United States and Canada explore society, culture, and change in the great, resource-laden Northwest. Essays examine European coastal exploration, American and Canadian comparative development, political and constitutional foundations, economic globalization; gendered and class history, and perspectives on the region's Native American, black, Asian American, and Hispanic citizenry. Included are contributions by Susan Armitage, Kenneth S. Coates, James M. Dolliver, Gordon Hirabayashi, Alvin M. Josephy Jr., Howard R. Lamar, John McClelland Jr., E. Mark Moreno, Quintard Taylor, David J. Weber, and Donald Worster.

Terra Northwest continues the Sherman and Mabel Smith Pettyjohn Lecture Series of publications examining essential aspects of Northwest history."--Jacket.