{"product_id":"the-organic-machine-the-remaking-of-the-columbia-river-paperback","title":"The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard White\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Organic Machine, Richard White, a distinguished historian and leading scholar of the American West, explores the intimate relationship between nature and mankind along the Columbia River. Working on the cutting edge of environmental and social history, White demonstrates how, over the centuries, both native peoples and settlers have continually remade the river, treating it as a machine designed to churn out energy and sustenance. He assesses the impact on the Northwest ecology of enterprises that have marked the river's history, from salmon fishing to the Hanford Energy Works nuclear plant, and eloquently reveals the insights and illusions of those who work with the river.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard White\u003c\/b\u003e, professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle, is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Middle Ground\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIt's Your Misfortune and None of My Own\u003c\/i\u003e and the recipient of the Albert J. Beveridge and Western Heritage awards.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 31, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47450524614834,"sku":"9780809015832","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/6abbe2c0e92e1c854c9b7b579114c538.webp?v=1778787270","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-organic-machine-the-remaking-of-the-columbia-river-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}