Description
The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.
In this pioneering study, White explores the relationship between the natural history of the Columbia River and the human history of the Pacific Northwest for both whites and Native Americans. He concentrates on what brings humans and the river together: not only the physical space of the region but also, and primarily, energy and work. For working with the river has been central to Pacific Northwesterners' competing ways of life. It is in this way that White comes to view the Columbia River as an organic machine--with conflicting human and natural claims--and to show that whatever separation exists between humans and nature exists to be crossed.Author: Richard White
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Published: 01/31/1996
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780809015832
ISBN10: 0809015838
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | Pacific Northwest (OR, WA)
- Science | Environmental Science (see also Chemistry | Environmental)
- Nature | Ecosystems & Habitats | Rivers
About the Author
Richard White, professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle, is the author of The Middle Ground and It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own and the recipient of the Albert J. Beveridge and Western Heritage awards.