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Environment and Experience
- Settlement Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oregon
Engelsk Hardback
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Environment and Experience
- Settlement Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oregon
Engelsk Hardback

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The pioneer battling with a hostile environment—whether it be arid land, drought, dust storms, dense forests, or harsh winters—is a staple of western American history. In this innovative, multi-disciplinary work, Peter Boag takes issue with the image of the settler against the frontier, arguing that settlers viewed their new surroundings positively and attempted to create communities in harmony with the landscape. Using Oregon's Calapooia Valley as a case study, Boag presents a history of both land and people that shows the process of change as settlers populated the land and turned it to their own uses. By combining local sources, ranging from letters and diaries to early maps and local histories, and drawing upon the methods of geography, natural history, and literary analysis, Boag has created a richly detailed grass-roots portrait of a frontier community. Most significantly, he analyzes the connections among environmental, cultural, and social changes in ways that illuminate the frontier experience throughout the American west. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
228
ISBN-13:
9780520357679
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0520357671
Udg. Dato:
29 apr 2022
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
148mm
Højde:
210mm
Forlag:
University of California Press
Oplagsdato:
29 apr 2022
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