Seattle: Past to Present

by Roger Sale

Book Overview

Seattle, Past to Present , interprets the history of the foremost city in the Northwest and traces the implications of that history for the city's present and future. In the process Seattle emerges not as a rough, half-formed frontier town but as a soft city of streets and houses, middle-class in aspiration and achievement; Roger Sale asks how it came to be that way. The methods Sale employs range from demographic analysis and residential survey to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029595521X
• ISBN13: 9780295955216
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher