9780295979014 : landscapes-of-promise-robbins-cronon

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9780295996219 : landscapes-of-promise-robbins-cronon

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Format	Paperback / softback
Published	October 1, 1999
ISBN-13	9780295979014
Language	English
Pages	416
Illustrations	21 illus.
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
Unit weight	1.4 Pounds (US)
List Prices	$24.95 USD, £18.99 GBP
ONIX	v2.1 Reference

Format	Hardback
Published	July 16, 2015
ISBN-13	9780295996219
Language	English
Pages	416
Illustrations	21 illus.
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
Unit weight	1.69 Pounds (US)
List Prices	$95.00 USD, £72.00 GBP
ONIX	v2.1 Reference

Landscapes of Promise

Name: Landscapes of Promise
Price: 24.95 USD
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Author: William G. Robbins
ISBN: 9780295979014

The Oregon Story, 1800-1940

By William G. Robbins
Foreword by William Cronon

University of Washington Press

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 only a creation of modern industrial society. Native Americans altered their environment in a number of ways, including the planned annual burning of grasslands and light-burning of understory forest debris. Early Euro-American settlers who thought they were taming a virgin wilderness were merely imposing a new set of alterations on an already modified landscape.

Beginning with the first 18th-century traders on the Pacific Coast, alterations to Oregon's landscape were closely linked to the interests of global market forces. Robbins uses period speeches and publications to document the increasing commodification of the landscape and its products. "Environment melts before the man who is in earnest," wrote one Oregon booster in 1905, reflecting prevailing ways of thinking.

In an impressive synthesis of primary sources and historical analysis, Robbins traces the transformation of the Oregon landscape and the evolution of our attitudes toward the natural world.

Publisher	University of Washington Press
Series	Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
BISAC Subject Headings	HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA) (121 Titles)
BIC Subject Headings	Forestry & related industries (82 Titles)

Format	Paperback / softback
Published	October 1, 1999
ISBN-13	9780295979014
Language	English
Pages	416
Illustrations	21 illus.
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
Unit weight	1.4 Pounds (US)
List Prices	$24.95 USD, £18.99 GBP
ONIX	v2.1 Reference

Format	Hardback
Published	July 16, 2015
ISBN-13	9780295996219
Language	English
Pages	416
Illustrations	21 illus.
Height	9.00 Inches (US)
Width	6.00 Inches (US)
Unit weight	1.69 Pounds (US)
List Prices	$95.00 USD, £72.00 GBP
ONIX	v2.1 Reference