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Emil and Kathleen Sick Series in Western History and Biography
With support from the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest at the University of Washington, the Sick Series in Western History and Biography features scholarly books on the peoples and issues that have defined and shaped the American West. Through intellectually challenging and engaging books of general interest, the series seeks to deepen and expand our understanding of the American West as a region and its role in the making of the United States and the modern world.
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Oregon's Others
Gender, Civil Liberties, and the Surveillance State in the Early Twentieth Century
Nativism, pseudoscience, and the campaign against the enemy within
In the era of the First World War and its aftermath, the quest to identify, restrict, and punish internal enemy “others,” combined with eugenic thinking, severely curtailed...
ISBN: 9780295752587
more detailsSeattle from the Margins
Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City
The creation of Seattle and the displacement of those who built it
From the origins of the city in the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War II, Seattle's urban workforce consisted overwhelmingly of migrant...
ISBN: 9780295751863
more detailsThe Forging of a Black Community
Seattle’s Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era
Seattle's first black resident was a sailor named Manuel Lopes who arrived in 1858 and became the small community's first barber. He left in the early 1870s to seek economic prosperity elsewhere, but as Seattle...
ISBN: 9780295750415
more detailsPioneering Death
The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-of-the-Century Oregon
On an autumn day in 1895, eighteen-year-old Loyd Montgomery shot his parents and a neighbor in a gruesome act that reverberated beyond the small confines of Montgomery's Oregon farming community. The dispassionate slaying and Montgomery's...
ISBN: 9780295750637
more detailsReclaiming the Reservation
Histories of Indian Sovereignty Suppressed and Renewed
In the 1970s the Quinault and Suquamish, like dozens of Indigenous nations across the United States, asserted their sovereignty by applying their laws to everyone on their reservations. This included arresting non-Indians for minor offenses,...
ISBN: 9780295745855
more detailsGold Rush Manliness
Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope
The mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes bring to mind raucous mining camps and slapped-together cities populated by carousing miners, gamblers, and prostitutes. Yet many of the white men who went to the gold fields were products of...
ISBN: 9780295744124
more detailsIn Defense of Wyam
Native-White Alliances and the Struggle for Celilo Village
When the US Army Corps of Engineers began planning construction of The Dalles Dam at Celilo Village in the mid-twentieth century, it was clear that this traditional fishing, commerce, and social site of immense importance...
ISBN: 9780295743585
more detailsPower and Place in the North American West
Western historians continue to seek new ways of understanding the particular mixture of physical territory, human actions, outside influences, and unique expectations that has made the North American West what it is today. This collection...
ISBN: 9780295977737
more detailsJapanese Prostitutes in the North American West, 1887-1920
This compelling study of a previously overlooked vice industry explores the larger structural forces that led to the growth of prostitution in Japan, the Pacific region, and the North American West at the turn of...
ISBN: 9780295743639
more detailsThe Great Columbia Plain
A Historical Geography, 1805-1910
Dismissed in early years as a wasteland, the rolling open country that covers the interior parts of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho is today one of the richest farmlands in the nation. This work is the...
ISBN: 9780295974859
more detailsThe Battle for Butte
Mining and Politics on the Northern Frontier, 1864–1906
First published in 1981, The Battle for Butte has remained the best treatment of the influence of copper in the political history of Montana. "Fine history: rich in detail, full of finely drawn people, masterfully...
ISBN: 9780295986074
more detailsHenry M. Jackson
A Life in Politics
Henry M. Jackson ranks as one of the great legislators in American history. With a Congressional career spanning the tenure of nine Presidents, Jackson had an enormous impact on the most crucial foreign policy and...
ISBN: 9780295995397
more detailsParallel Destinies
Canadian-American Relations West of the Rockies
The Canadian West and the American Northwest offer a valuable setting for considering issues of borders and borderlands. The regions contain certain similarities, and during the first half of the nineteenth century they were even...
ISBN: 9780295982533
more detailsWarren G. Magnuson and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America
Warren G. Magnuson served as U.S. senator from the state of Washington for six terms. The sheer sweep of his accomplishments is astonishing: authoring the 1964 Civil Rights Act, protecting Puget Sound, saving Boeing for...
ISBN: 9780295995342
more detailsEncounters in Avalanche Country
A History of Survival in the Mountain West, 1820-1920
Every winter settlers of the U.S. and Canadian Mountain West could expect to lose dozens of lives to deadly avalanches. This constant threat to trappers, miners, railway workers-and their families-forced individuals and communities to develop...
ISBN: 9780295995403
more detailsAtomic Frontier Days
Hanford and the American West
Outstanding Title by Choice Magazine
On the banks of the Pacific Northwest’s greatest river lies the Hanford nuclear reservation, an industrial site that appears to be at odds with the surrounding vineyards and desert. The 586-square-mile...
ISBN: 9780295990972
more detailsThe Power of Promises
Rethinking Indian Treaties in the Pacific Northwest
Treaties with Native American groups in the Pacific Northwest have had profound and long-lasting implications for land ownership, resource access, and political rights in both the United States and Canada. In The Power of Promises,...
ISBN: 9780295988399
more detailsThe Nature of Borders
Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea
Winner of the 2014 Albert Corey Prize from the American Historical Association
Winner of the 2013 Hal Rothman Award from the Western History Association
Winner of the 2013 John Lyman Book Award in the Naval and Maritime...
ISBN: 9780295991825
more detailsTrout Culture
How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West
From beer labels to literary classics like A River Runs Through It, trout fishing is a beloved feature of the iconography of the American West. But as Jen Brown demonstrates in Trout Culture: How Fly...
ISBN: 9780295741703
more detailsShadow Tribe
The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity
Shadow Tribe offers the first in-depth history of the Pacific Northwest’s Columbia River Indians -- the defiant River People whose ancestors refused to settle on the reservations established for them in central Oregon and Washington....
ISBN: 9780295990200
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