Table of Contents

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

Promotional Information

Perhaps the most important thing about this book of essays is the intellectual daring of the editors and the contributors in tackling the extremely important but extremely difficult linkage of power and place in the West. This is an admirable example of innovative, pioneering scholarship. -- Richard M. Brown, University of Oregon A fine collection of provocative essays. The apparently straightforward term 'power,' like 'place,' offers multiple angles of understanding and opens our appreciation of the splendid complexity of these topics. -- Elliott West, University of Arkansas