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Title: The Pacific Northwest: An Interpretive History by Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes ISBN: 0-8032-9228-7 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: easy reading
Comment: I've used this as a textbook for a college level history class, and I've enjoyed it quite a bit. Schwantes' writing flows, and reads more like a story rather than a textbook. I could and probably would read this book on my own time as a source of entertainment. He does not dig very deep into the subject, but as stated above, he simply gives a brief oversite of the history of the region. If you have a casual interest in the PNW, buy this book. You may find it cheaper in a book store though. I paid less in a college bookstore!!!
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent introduction
Comment: Mr. Schwentes has written a fine example of what an introductory survey of a region should be: broad and sympathetic in scope, with generous quotes, excerpts, and analysis. He doesn't harp on any one group's preeminance but instead shows us the region's social, political and economic fortunes from European discovery to the present, through graphs, photographs, political cartoons. Missing is only a much-needed chapter on pre-historic Native American habitation, but given his even-handed handling of the issue throughout the rest of the book, this is a quibble easily corrected in future editions.
"The Pacific Northwest" would be a valuable text in a high school or college setting, as well as for the general public.
Rating: 5
Summary: Inclusive history
Comment: This book was nice because it didn't just talk about "the complete Native American Experience" or "the complete African American experience" instead, it would talk about an historical event and explains how that effected the masses as well as the Native Americans, African Americans, women, Chicanos/as, Asian Americans, labor, environmentalists, etc. It was quietly inclusive. Plus it discussed all aspects of WA state and NWern history from European exploration to Microsoft and Boeing aircraft. Very complete, used as a textbook for a college class at the U of Washington.
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Title: Nisei Daughter by Monica Itoi Sone, S. Frank Miyamoto ISBN: 0295956887 Publisher: University of Washington Press Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.89 |
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Title: Atlas of the Pacific Northwest by Philip L. Jackson, A. Jon Kimerling ISBN: 0870715607 Publisher: Oregon State Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Organic Machine : The Remaking of the Columbia River by Richard White ISBN: 0809015838 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub Pub. Date: 31 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Good Rain : Across Time & Terrain in the Pacific Northwest by Timothy Egan ISBN: 0679734856 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 03 December, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle by Murray Cromwell, Morgan, Murry Morgan ISBN: 0295958464 Publisher: University of Washington Press Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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