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  | | Nature's Northwest(1st Edition) The North Pacific Slope in the Twentieth Century (The Modern American West) by William G. Robbins, Katrine Barber Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Arizona Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-2959-9, ISBN: 0-8165-2959-0 "At the beginning of the twentieth century, the greater Northwest was ablaze with change and seemingly obsessed with progress. The promotional literature of the time praising railroads, population increases, and the growing sophistication of urban living, however, ignored the reality of poverty and ethnic and gender discrimination. During the course of the next century, even with dramatic changes in the region, one constant remained-- in ..." |
 | | Oregon This Storied Land (Paperback) by William G. Robbins Paperback, Published 2020 by University Of Washington Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-295-74724-8, ISBN: 0-295-74724-2 |
 | | Hard Times in Paradise(Updated) Coos Bay, Oregon, Revised Edition by William G. Robbins Paperback, 236 Pages, Published 2006 by University Of Washington Press ISBN-13: 978-0-295-98548-0, ISBN: 0-295-98548-8 "Blessed with vast expanses of virgin timber, a good harbor, and a San Francisco market for its lumber, the Coos Bay area once dubbed itself "a poor man's paradise." A new Prologue and Epilogue by the author bring this story of gyppo loggers, longshoremen, millwrights, and whistle punks into the twenty-first century, describing Coos Bay’s transition from timber town to a retirement and tourist community, where the site of a former Weyerh ..." |
 | | Landscapes of Conflict(1st Edition) The Oregon Story, 1940-2000 (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) by William G. Robbins, William Cronon Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of Washington Press ISBN-13: 978-0-295-98442-1, ISBN: 0-295-98442-2 "Post-World War II Oregon was a place of optimism and growth, a spectacular natural region from ocean to high desert that seemingly provided opportunity in abundance. With the passing of time, however, Oregon’s citizens ― rural and urban ― would find themselves entangled in issues that they had little experience in resolving. The same trees that provided income to timber corporations, small mill owners, loggers, and many small towns in O ..." |
 | | Colony and Empire(Updated) The Capitalist Transformation of the American West by William G. Robbins Paperback, 274 Pages, Published 1994 by University Press Of Kansas ISBN-13: 978-0-7006-0750-1, ISBN: 0-7006-0750-1 "Popular writers and historians alike have perpetuated the powerful myth of the rugged-individualist single-handedly transforming the American West. In reality, William Robbins counters, it was the Guggenheims and Goulds, the Harrimans and Hearsts, and the Morgans and Mellons who masterminded what the West was to become. Remove the romance, he shows, and a darker West emerges-a colonial-like region where "industrial statesmen," aided by ..." |
 | | Land in the American West(1st Edition) Private Claims and the Common Good by William G. Robbins, James C. Foster, Deborah Healy, James Carl Foster Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of Washington Press ISBN-13: 978-0-295-98020-1, ISBN: 0-295-98020-6 "Throughout the history of the United States, the concepts of "land" and "the West" have fired the American imagination and fueled controversy. The essays in Land in the American West deal with complex, troublesome, and interrelated questions regarding land: Who owns it? Who has access to it? What happens when private rights infringe upon the public good, or when one ethnic group is pitted against another, or when there is a conflict be ..." |
 | | Oregon This Storied Land by William G. Robbins 256 Pages, Published 2020 ISBN-13: 978-0-295-74725-5, ISBN: 0-295-74725-0 "Robbins writes in the introduction: 'This book attempts to remain true to a historian's commitment to critical inquiry, to interrogate the past with a critical lens, to raise uncomfortable questions, to approach Oregon's history with an ..." |
 | | Lumberjacks and Legislators Political Economy of the U.S. Lumber Industry, 1890-1941 (Environmental History Series) by William G. Robbins Paperback, 284 Pages, Published 2000 by Texas A&M University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58544-025-2, ISBN: 1-58544-025-6 "For years the logging industry and the rich timberlands of the East and West coasts have evoked images of Jigger Jones and Paul Bunyan, lusty lumbermen of folk history. Behind these myths, however, lie the realities of ruthless competition, heedless exploitation of forestlands, and massive overproduction that once threatened to destroy the lumber industry. William G. Robbins reveals a sharply revisionist view of the lumber industry in t ..." |
 | | Nature's Northwest(1st Edition) The North Pacific Slope in the Twentieth Century (Modern American West (Hardcover)) by William G. Robbins, Katrine Barber Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Arizona Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-2894-3, ISBN: 0-8165-2894-2 "At the beginning of the twentieth century, the greater Northwest was ablaze with change and seemingly obsessed with progress. The promotional literature of the time praising railroads, population increases, and the growing sophistication of urban living, however, ignored the reality of poverty and ethnic and gender discrimination. During the course of the next century, even with dramatic changes in the region, one constant remained-- in ..." |
 | | Landscapes of Conflict The Oregon Story, 1940-2000 (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series) by William G. Robbins, William Cronon Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Washington Press ISBN-13: 978-0-295-99043-9, ISBN: 0-295-99043-0 "Post-World War II Oregon was a place of optimism and growth, a spectacular natural region from ocean to high desert that seemingly provided opportunity in abundance. With the passing of time, however, Oregon's citizens -- rural and urban -- would find themselves entangled in issues that they had little experience in resolving. The same trees that provided income to timber corporations, small mill owners, loggers, and many small towns in ..." |
 | | Oregon(Updated) This Storied Land by William G. Robbins Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2005 by Oregon Historical Society ISBN-13: 978-0-87595-286-4, ISBN: 0-87595-286-0 "Oregon is a landscape of brilliant waterfalls, towering volcanoes, productive river valleys, and far-reaching high deserts. It is also a land of stories. People have lived on the Oregon landscape for at least twelve thousand years, and during that time they have established communities, named places, built railroads, harvested fish and timber, and made laws that both protected and threatened the land. It is a history of commodification ..." |
 | | Landscapes of Promise(New edition) The Oregon Story, 1800-1940 (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) by Robbins, William G., Cronon, William Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 1999 by University Of Washington Press ISBN-13: 978-0-274-71406-3, ISBN: 0-274-71406-X |
 | | Landscapes of Promise(1st Edition) The Oregon Story, 1800-1940 (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) by William G. Robbins, William Cronon Hardcover, 392 Pages, Published 1997 by University Of Washington Press ISBN-13: 978-0-295-97632-7, ISBN: 0-295-97632-2 ""Landscapes of Promise" is the first comprehensive environmental history of the early years of a state that has long been associated with environmental protection. Covering the period from early human habitation to the end of World War II, William Robbins shows that the reality of Oregon's environmental history involves far more than a discussion of timber cutting and land-use planning. Robbins demonstrates that ecological change is not ..." |
 | | Colony and Empire The Capitalist Transformation of the American West by William G. Robbins Hardcover, 274 Pages, Published 1994 by University Press Of Kansas ISBN-13: 978-0-7006-0645-0, ISBN: 0-7006-0645-9 "Popular writers and historians alike have perpetuated the powerful myth of the rugged-individualist single-handedly transforming the American West. In reality, William Robbins counters, it was the Guggenheims and Goulds, the Harrimans and Hearsts, and the Morgans and Mellons who masterminded what the West was to become. Remove the romance, he shows, and a darker West emerges—a colonial-like region where "industrial statesmen," aided by ..." |
 | | Hard Times in Paradise(1st Edition) Coos Bay, Oregon, 1850-1986 by William G. Robbins Paperback, 194 Pages, Published 1988 by University Of Washington Press ISBN-13: 978-0-295-96617-5, ISBN: 0-295-96617-3 "PAPERBACK BOOK" |
 | | Landscapes of Promise The Oregon Story, 1800-1940 (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) by William G. Robbins, William Cronon Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of Washington Press ISBN-13: 978-0-295-99621-9, ISBN: 0-295-99621-8 " Landscapes of Promise is the first comprehensive environmental history of the early years of a state that has long been associated with environmental protection. Covering the period from early human habitation to the end of World War II, William Robbins shows that the reality of Oregon's environmental history involves far more than a discussion of timber cutting and land-use planning.Robbins demonstrates that ecological change is not o ..." |
 | | A Man for All Seasons(1st Edition) Monroe Sweetland and the Liberal Paradox by William G. Robbins Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 2015 by Oregon State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87071-811-3, ISBN: 0-87071-811-8 "The life of prominent Oregon political leader Monroe Sweetland spans the spectrum of 20th-century America. Through seven decades, Sweetland experienced the economic collapse of the Great Depression, the unparalleled violence of a nation at war, the divisiveness of Cold War politics, and the cultural and political turmoil of the Vietnam War. Historian William G. Robbins illuminates the wrenching transformation of American political cultu ..." |
 | | Land in the American West Private Claims and the Common Good by William G. Robbins, James C. Foster 224 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Washington Press ISBN-13: 978-0-295-80289-3, ISBN: 0-295-80289-8 "His history of Alaska will be published in 2001. michael w. mccann is chair and professor of political science at the University ... Story, 1800–1940 (1997; paperback 1999). william d. rowley is professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno, and ... richard white is professor of history at Stanford University and the author of several award-winning books and articles. His most recent book is Remembering Ahanagran: A Histor ..." |
 | | Weyerhaeuser Environmental Bks. Landscapes of Promise : The Oregon Story, 1800-1940 by William G. Robbins 416 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Washington Press ISBN-13: 978-0-295-98969-3, ISBN: 0-295-98969-6 "Theodor Kirchoff, who passed through the eastern Oregon mining region in 1868, offered a glimpse of the new ecological reckoning that was taking place: “ elevated troughs, long sluices, uprooted ground, raw piles of sand and tailings, heaps of cleanly washed stone, and water for mining rushes in ditches and wooden conduits among bolders and trees.” In Rye Valley, Kirchoff reported the existence of shafts and tunnels with piles of ta ..." |
 | | Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813(1st Edition) (Northwest Reprints) by Alexander Ross, William G. Robbins, Robert J. Frank Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2000 by Oregon State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87071-528-0, ISBN: 0-87071-528-3 "Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1904. Excerpt: ... well disposed, he had most probably gone off to the white men's land for more goods, and would be back early with a rich supply and many people, so that [150] all their wants would be satisfied; that those who hunted best would get most; that they had bette ..." |
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