Introduction
PART 1: INDIANS AND NON-INDIANS
Coboway's Tale: A Story of Power and Place Along the Columbia
Violence, Justice, and State Power in the New Mexican Borderlands,
1780-1880
Making "Indians" in British Columbia: Power, Race, and the
Importance of Place
PART 2: RACE IN THE URBAN WEST
Federal Power and Racial Politics in Los Angeles During World War
II
Race, Rhetoric, and Regional Identity: Boosting Los Angeles,
1880-1930
Recasting Identities: American-born Chinese and Nisei in the Era of
the Pacific War
PART 3: ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMY
Tourism as Colonial Economy: Power and Place in Western Tourism
Creating Wealth by Consuming Place: Timber Management on the
Gifford Pinchot National Forest
"Politics Is at the Bottom of the Whole Thing": Spatial Relations
of Power in Oregon Salmon Management
Natures Industries: The Rhetoric of Industrialism in the Oregon
Country
PART 4: GENDER IN THE URBAN WEST
Lighting Out for the Territory: Women, Mobility and Western
Place
Contributors
Index
Perhaps the most important thing about this book of essays is the intellectual daring of the editors and the contributors in tackling the extremely important but extremely difficult linkage of power and place in the West. This is an admirable example of innovative, pioneering scholarship. -- Richard M. Brown, University of Oregon A fine collection of provocative essays. The apparently straightforward term 'power,' like 'place,' offers multiple angles of understanding and opens our appreciation of the splendid complexity of these topics. -- Elliott West, University of Arkansas
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