The Pacific Slope: A History Of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, And Nevada - Softcover

Pomeroy, Earl

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9780874175189: The Pacific Slope: A History Of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, And Nevada

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ISBN 10: 0874175186 ISBN 13: 9780874175189

Publisher: University of Nevada Press, 2003

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Earl Pomeroy is one of the most influential Western historians of the twentieth century, a scholar whose writings have reconceptionalized the entire discipline. The Pacific Slope, his most ambitious and significant work, synthesizes the history of six western states by examining the historical forces that made the West what it is today. His West is a region of considerable diversity rather than the product of a process of steady and fairly homogeneous settlement, and his focus is on urbanization over rural life and on the West's varied populations of people of color as well as on Euro-American elites. As Pomeroy states in his preface, "conventional emphasis leaves a large part of the story untold, even the story of people who accepted conventions. I have tried to focus on men and events that explain the West as a developing community, emphasizing traits and institutions."

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First published in 1965, The Pacific Slope remains a fundamental interpretation of the history of the American West. The University of Nevada Press paperback edition includes a new foreword by historian Elliott West.

About the Author:

Earl Pomeroy is one of the most widely-read historians of the American West. His major works include In Search of the Golden West and The Territories and the United States. Pomeroy taught at the University of Oregon for a quarter-century, until accepting an appointment at the University of San Diego, where he remained for a decade until his retirement in 1984. He returned to Eugene, Oregon where he is now professor emeritus of history.

Elliott West is a professor of history at the University of Arkansas.

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