Two Centuries Of Lewis And Clark: Reflections On The Voyage Of Discovery - Couverture souple

Lang, William L.; Abbott, Carl

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0875952887 ISBN 13 : 9780875952888

Editeur : Oregon Historical Society Press, 2004

Synopsis

The landscape encountered by the Corps of Discovery during their multi-year, cross- country trek to the Pacific was dramatically different from the one that greeted visitors attending Portland’s Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in 1905 or the one that exists in the Pacific Northwest today. On the occasion of the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition and the centennial of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, the time is ripe for reconciling those earlier events with present-day activities. In Two Centuries of Lewis and Clark, William L. Lang and Carl Abbott have collaborated to address those issues. Lang scrutinizes the motivations for the Lewis and Clark expedition and the environmental ramifications of its discoveries on the people and the landscape of the Columbia River Basin. Abbott examines the ways in which the Lewis and Clark Exposition advanced President Jefferson’s goal of developing the economic potential of the Pacific Northwest, particularly through the exploitation of the region’s abundant natural resources.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

William L. Lang is professor of history at Portland State University, former Director of the Center for Columbia River History and founding coeditor of the award-winning Oregon Encyclopedia of History and Culture. He is the author or editor of many books on Pacific Northwest history, including Confederacy of Ambition: William Winlock Miller and the Making of Washington Territory (University of Washington Press, 1996) and Explorers of the Maritime Northwest: Mapping the World through Primary Documents (ABC-Clio/Greenwood, 2016).

Carl Abbott is professor emeritus of urban studies and planning at Portland State University. He has published sixteen books as an author, editor, or coeditor. These include Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001) and How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America (University of New Mexico Press, 2016).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oregon Historical Society Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0875952887
• ISBN 13: 9780875952888
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 150
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible