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Organic Machine : The Remaking of the Columbia River by Richard White (1996, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-100809015838
ISBN-139780809015832
eBay Product ID (ePID)615025
Product Key Features
Book TitleOrganic Machine : the Remaking of the Columbia River
Number of Pages144 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicHuman Geography, Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers, United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (Or, Wa)
Publication Year1996
IllustratorYes
GenreNature, Social Science, History
AuthorRichard White
Book SeriesHill and Wang Critical Issues Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight4.8 Oz
Item Length8.1 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"Visionary . . . White has posed a brilliant new model for environmental history."--Howard R. Lamar, Yale University "A crystalline gem of a book. White makes the transformation of the Columbia River basin into a compelling microhistory of the encounter between the forces of technology and nature in America."--Leo Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "White has done something remarkable: he has shown us a way of thinking that connects our deep history to the present and sees our most essential human habits--work, in this case--as inseparable from the places we inhabit."--Elliott West, University of Arkansas, "Visionary . . . White has posed a brilliant new model for environmental history." -- Howard R. Lamar, Yale University "A crystalline gem of a book. White makes the transformation of the Columbia River basin into a compelling microhistory of the encounter between the forces of technology and nature in America." -- Leo Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "White has done something remarkable: he has shown us a way of thinking that connects our deep history to the present and sees our most essential human habits--work, in this case--as inseparable from the places we inhabit." -- Elliott West, University of Arkansas, White has done something remarkable: he has shown us a way of thinking that connects our deep history to the present and sees our most essential human habits--work, in this case--as inseparable from the places we inhabit., A crystalline gem of a book. White makes the transformation of the Columbia River basin into a compelling microhistory of the encounter between the forces of technology and nature in America.
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal979.7
SynopsisThe Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. In this pioneering study, White explores the relationship between the natural history of the Columbia River and the human history of the Pacific Northwest for both whites and Native Americans. He concentrates on what brings humans and the river together: not only the physical space of the region but also, and primarily, energy and work. For working with the river has been central to Pacific Northwesterners' competing ways of life. It is in this way that White comes to view the Columbia River as an organic machine--with conflicting human and natural claims--and to show that whatever separation exists between humans and nature exists to be crossed.
LC Classification NumberF853.W675 1996
