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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.
Contents
Introduction
David H StrattonSection 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
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