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The Pacific Northwest

An Interpretive History

By: Carlos A. Schwantes

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The Pacific Northwest

An Interpretive History

By: Carlos A. Schwantes

Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes has revised and expanded the entire work, which is still the most comprehensive and balanced history of the region. This edition contains significant additional material on early mining in the Pacific Northwest, sea routes to Oregon in the early discovery and contact period, the environment of the region, the impact of the Klondike gold rush, and politics since 1945. Recent environmental controversies, such as endangered salmon runs and the spotted owl dispute, have been addressed, as has the effect of the Cold War on the region’s economy. The author has also expanded discussion of the roles of women and minorities and updated statistical information.

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U of Nebraska Press

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ISBN 10

0803292287

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9780803292284

Going Places

Transportation Redefines the Twentieth-Century West

By: Carlos A. Schwantes

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Going Places

Transportation Redefines the Twentieth-Century West

By: Carlos A. Schwantes

How trains, cars, and planes helped tame and transform the American West.

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456

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Indiana University Press

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0253342023

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9780253342027

In Mountain Shadows

A History of Idaho

By: Carlos A. Schwantes

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In Mountain Shadows

A History of Idaho

By: Carlos A. Schwantes

Idaho is now seen as one of the most intriguing and attractive states in the Union. Any view of the Gem State is likely to be broadened and deepened by this superbly written history of it, In Mountain Shadows. Carlos A. Schwantes illustrates the extent to which Idahoans have always been divided by geography, transportation patterns, religion, and history. Although the state motto should have been "Divided We Stand," as he says in affectionate jest, it is also true that Idahoans come together on some basics—on avoiding crowds and maintaining the good life close to scenic mountains and streams. Schwantes reaches back to 1805, when Lewis and Clark were among the first white men to enter present-day Idaho. He describes the Indians then living in the Great Basin and Plateau, and proceeds through layers of history to show how fur traders, missionaries, and overland emigrants defined the land that became a territory in 1863 and, finally, a state in 1890. The vigilantism, Indian wars, mining booms and busts, and an-imosity toward Mormons and Chinese immigrants that marked the territorial years gave way to more troubles in the early years of statehood: an economic downturn, industrial violence, political protest. The arrival of automobiles promised to end isolation, but the formidable terrain slowed the building of north-south highways, just as it had railroads. Nevertheless, future Idaho would be a product of engineering and witness the coming of irrigation systems and hydroelectric plants. Schwantes brings his history through the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War, noting everyday life, colorful personalities, political and economic cycles, raging controversies, and current trends.

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312

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803292414

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9780803292413

Vision & Enterprise

Exploring the History of Phelps Dodge Corporation

By: Carlos A. Schwantes

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Vision & Enterprise

Exploring the History of Phelps Dodge Corporation

By: Carlos A. Schwantes

An overview of mining giant Phelps Dodge, examining the company's 165-year history within the context of American technological and social history.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816519439

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9780816519439

Hard Traveling

A Portrait of Work Life in the New Northwest

By: Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes

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Hard Traveling

A Portrait of Work Life in the New Northwest

By: Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes

The nearly two hundred rare and dramatic photographs in this work depict life at work in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Work?often arduous, low paid, and dangerous?defined the region during its period of supercharged development from the 1880s to the 1920s. A final section records work during the depression and war years in the 1930s and 1940s. ø Complementing the photographs are statements by workers themselves, government analysts, and later observers. The author's essays and commentary on the photographs demonstrate, that, from the beginning of U.S. control, wage labor was crucial to integrating the Pacific Northwest into national and international networks of trade, commerce, and industry. The development of lumber, mining, fishing, railroad, and service industries in the New Northwest marked the transformation of the region from an isolated periphery to a functioning component of the world economy and culture. ø Schwantes also deals with the tension between the supposed freedom and individualism of the frontier West on the one hand and the constraints of wage labor as practiced in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on the other. This tension gave rise to an often militant trade unionism and political radicalism that was particularly marked in the Northwest.

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250

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803292708

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9780803292703

Crossroads of a Continent

Missouri Railroads, 1851-1921

By: Peter A. Hansen,Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes,Don L. Hofsommer

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Crossroads of a Continent

Missouri Railroads, 1851-1921

By: Peter A. Hansen,Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes,Don L. Hofsommer

Crossroads of a Continent: Missouri Railroads, 1851-1921 tells the story of the state's railroads and their vital role in American history. Missouri and St. Louis, its largest city, are strategically located within the American Heartland. On July 4, 1851, when the Pacific Railroad of Missouri began construction in St. Louis, the city took its first step to becoming a major hub for railroads. By the 1920s, the state was crisscrossed with railways reaching toward all points of the compass. Authors Peter A. Hansen, Don L. Hofsommer, and Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes explore the history of Missouri railroads through personal, absorbing tales of the cutthroat competition between cities and between railroads that meant the difference between prosperity and obscurity, the ambitions and dreams of visionaries Fred Harvey and Arthur Stilwell, and the country's excitement over the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 color images of historical railway ephemera, Crossroads of a Continent is an engaging history of key American railroads and of Missouri's critical contribution to the American story.

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395

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Indiana University Press

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0253062373

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9780253062376

Radical Heritage

Labor, Socialism, and Reform in Washington and British Columbia, 1885-1917

By: Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes

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Radical Heritage

Labor, Socialism, and Reform in Washington and British Columbia, 1885-1917

By: Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes

Historian Carlos A. Schwantes studies the forces that shaped the history of the labor movement on either side of the forty-ninth parallel and the reason for the eventual demise of the socialist movement in Washington State and its continuing vigor in British Columbia.

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University of Washington Press

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0295802189

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9780295802183

Radical Heritage

Labor, Socialism, and Reform in Washington and British Columbia, 1885-1917

By: Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes

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Labor, Socialism, and Reform in Washington and British Columbia, 1885-1917

By: Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes

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Railroad Signatures Across the Pacific Northwest

By: Carlos A. Schwantes

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Railroad Signatures Across the Pacific Northwest

By: Carlos A. Schwantes

Covers the impact of the railroad on the Pacific Northwest states, tracing its history from pre-railroad transportation to the completion of the Northern Pacific line in 1883

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0295972106

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Book's by Carlos A. Schwantes

The Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest

Going Places

Going Places

In Mountain Shadows

In Mountain Shadows

Vision & Enterprise

Vision & Enterprise

Hard Traveling

Hard Traveling

Crossroads of a Continent

Crossroads of a Continent

Radical Heritage

Radical Heritage

Radical Heritage

Radical Heritage

Railroad Signatures Across the Pacific Northwest

Railroad Signatures Across the Pacific Northwest

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