The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River - Hardcover

White, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809035596 ISBN 13: 9780809035595

Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub, 1995

Synopsis

Describes how humans have changed the Columbia River, and discusses the way people interact with nature through work

About this title

From the Back Cover:

In 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.

About the Author:

Richard White is professor of history at the University of Washington in Seattle.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0809035596
• ISBN 13: 9780809035595
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 130
• Editor: Foner Eric