The Organic Machine

The Remaking of the Columbia River

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Nature, Environment, Rivers, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Human Geography, History, Americas, United States
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Author: Richard White ISBN: 9781429952422
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication: April 1, 2011
Imprint: Hill and Wang Language: English
Author: Richard White
ISBN: 9781429952422
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication: April 1, 2011
Imprint: Hill and Wang
Language: English

The 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.

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The 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.

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