{"product_id":"the-pacific-raincoast-robert-bunting-9780700611010","title":"The Pacific Raincoast: Environment and Culture in an American Eden, 1778-1900","description":"The Pacific Northwest has always invoked images of lush forested landscapes and travelog vistas. More recently, such images have been marred by much-publicized controversies pitting spotted owls and salmon against logging interests and power companies. But, as Robert Bunting shows, such conflicts are only the most recent emblems of the competition for dominion in the Douglas-fir region running from southern Canada to northern California. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBunting chronicles this struggle from the first sustained contact between Native American and Euro-American cultures to 1900, when Frederick Weyerhaeuser's purchase of 900,000 acres of Washington forest completed one of the largest land deals in U.S. history. He depicts an evolving Eden that was never as environmentally pristine nor as viciously exploited as some have suggested, but which reflected the complex relations created by competing cultures amidst the illusion of inexhaustible abundance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBunting describes in detail this distinctive bioregion and reveals how various groups of people have viewed it, struggled to possess it, and been shaped by it. His study illuminates the contrasting ways in which Indians and non-Indians interacted with the environment and with each other; the underlying myths that governed such differences; the actual environmental attitudes of western settlers rather than eastern intellectuals; the inextricable links between environmental and human exploitation, as well as between ecological and cultural stability; and the curiously divergent paths of development taken by the two raincoast states, Washington and Oregon. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn exemplar of the new environmental history, \u003ci\u003eThe Pacific Raincoast\u003c\/i\u003e expands our understanding of a vital place that witnessed the clash of cultures; fired the imaginations of Lewis and Clark and generations of restless Americans; conjured up visions of empire for timber corporations; and eventually provided a showcase battleground for environmentalists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Bunting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0700611010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780700611010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Kansas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/10\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d","brand":"Robert Bunting","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47419102003455,"sku":"9780700611010","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a72191e2-9ba4-4aa1-b0c2-e53bf4fd0ef5.jpg?v=1761509463","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-pacific-raincoast-robert-bunting-9780700611010","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}