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Landscapes of Promise : The Oregon Story, 1800-1940.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Weyerhaeuser Environmental BksPublisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1997Copyright date: ©1997Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (427 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780295989693
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Landscapes of PromiseDDC classification:
  • 333.7/09795
LOC classification:
  • WEB
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by William Croonon -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Essence of Place -- I. The Early Historic Period, 1800-1850 -- The Native Ecological Context -- The Great Divide -- II. Settler Occupation and the Advent of Industrialism, 1850-1890 -- Prescripting the Landscape -- Technology and Abundance -- Into the Hinterland -- III. Extending the Industrial Infrastructure, 1890-1940 -- Nature's Industries and the Rhetoric of Industrialism -- Industrializing the Woodlands -- Engineering Nature -- Toward Systemic Change -- Epilogue: One Moment in Time -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by William Croonon -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Essence of Place -- I. The Early Historic Period, 1800-1850 -- The Native Ecological Context -- The Great Divide -- II. Settler Occupation and the Advent of Industrialism, 1850-1890 -- Prescripting the Landscape -- Technology and Abundance -- Into the Hinterland -- III. Extending the Industrial Infrastructure, 1890-1940 -- Nature's Industries and the Rhetoric of Industrialism -- Industrializing the Woodlands -- Engineering Nature -- Toward Systemic Change -- Epilogue: One Moment in Time -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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