The Pacific Northwest: Growth of a Regional Identity
- ISBN-10
- 0786455918
- ISBN-13
- 9780786455911
- Series
- The Pacific Northwest
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 227
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-04-23
- Publisher
- McFarland
- Authors
- Raymond D. Gastil, Barnett Singer
Description
The Pacific Northwest—for the purposes of this book mostly Oregon and Washington—has sometimes been seen as lacking significant cultural history. Home to idyllic environmental wonders, the region has been plagued by the notion that the best and brightest often left in search of greater things, that the mainstream world was thousands of miles away—or at least as far south as California. This book describes the Pacific Northwest’s search for a regional identity from the first Indian-European contacts through the late twentieth century, identifying those individuals and groups “who at least struggled to give meaning to the Northwest experience.” It places particular emphasis on writers and other celebrated individuals in the arts, detailing how their lives and works both reflected the region and also enhanced its sense of self.
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Other editions
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- 1989
- 426 pages
- Paperback
- University of Nebraska Press
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