Power and Place in the North American West

John M. Findlay is Professor Emeritus of History at University of Washington. He is the author of People of Chance: Gambling in American Society from Jamestown to Las Vegas (Oxford University Press, 1986); Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture after 1940 (University of California Press, 1992); and Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West, with Bruce Hevly (University of Washington Press, 2011). He has also co-edited three multi-author volumes that had their origins as symposia at the University of Washington's Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest: The Atomic West, eds. Bruce Hevly and John M. Findlay (1998); Power and Place in the North American West, eds. Richard White and John M. Findlay (1999); and Parallel Destinies: Canadians, Americans, and the Western Border, eds. John M. Findlay and Ken Coates (2002).

Introduction PART 1: INDIANS AND NON-INDIANS Coboway's Tale: A Story of Power and Place Along the Columbia Violence, Justice, and State Power in the New Mexican Borderlands, 1780-1880 Making "Indians" in British Columbia: Power, Race, and the Importance of Place PART 2: RACE IN THE URBAN WEST Federal Power and Racial Politics in Los Angeles During World War II Race, Rhetoric, and Regional Identity: Boosting Los Angeles, 1880-1930 Recasting Identities: American-born Chinese and Nisei in the Era of the Pacific War PART 3: ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMY Tourism as Colonial Economy: Power and Place in Western Tourism Creating Wealth by Consuming Place: Timber Management on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest "Politics Is at the Bottom of the Whole Thing": Spatial Relations of Power in Oregon Salmon Management Natures Industries: The Rhetoric of Industrialism in the Oregon Country PART 4: GENDER IN THE URBAN WEST Lighting Out for the Territory: Women, Mobility and Western Place Contributors Index