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Terra Northwest

Interpreting People and Place

by Susan Armitage, Kenneth S. Coates, James M. Dolliver, Gordon Hirabayashi, Alvin M. Josephy Jr., Howard R. Lamar, John McClelland Jr., E. Mark Moreno and Quintard Taylor

Published by: WSU Press

Imprint: WSU Press

232 Pages, 152.00 × 229.00 × 14.00 mm

Paperback
9780874222913
Published: October 2007

£16.99

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Eleven thought-provoking experts from the United States and Canada explore society, culture, and change in the great, resource-laden Northwest. Essays examine the European exploration of the Pacific coast, American and Canadian comparative development, the political and constitutional foundations, economic globalization, gendered and class history, and perspectives on the 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 the essential aspects of Northwest history.

Introduction
David H Stratton

Section One: Place
I. The Spanish Moment in the Pacific Northwest
David J. Weber

II. Two Faces West: The Development Myth in Canada and the United States
Donald Worster

III. Almost Columbia, Triumphantly Washington
John McClelland Jr.

IV. Statehood: Symbol of a New Era
Howard R. Lamar

V. A Matter of Context: The Pacific Northwest in World History
Kenneth S. Coates

Section Two: People

VI. The American Indian and Freedom of Religion: An Historic Appraisal
Alvin M. Josephy Jr.

VII. The Mind of the Founders: An Assessment of the Washington Constitution of 1889
James M. Dolliver

VIII. Growing Up American in the Pacific Northwest
Gordon Hirabayashi

IX. "There Was No Better Place to Go" African-American Migration, 1940-1950
Quintard Taylor

X. Mexican American Street Gangs, Migration, and Violence in the Yakima Valley
E. Mark Moreno

XI. Rethinking the Region: Gender, Race, and Class in Pacific Northwest History
Susan Armitage

Contributors

David H. Stratton, former WSU History Department chair, is a noted, long-time specialist of the history of the American West and the Northwest region.