Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples: Readings in Environmental History

Book Overview

It can be said that all of human history is environmental history, for all human action happens in an environment--in a place. This collection of essays explores the environmental history of the Pacific Northwest of North America, addressing questions of how humans have adapted to the northwestern landscape and modified it over time, and how the changing landscape in turn affected human society, economy, laws, and values.

Northwest Lands...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295978384
• ISBN13: 9780295978383
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Fascinating information on ecology in the Northwest

This book is an interesting collection of papers on what the book title calls "environmental history", but what might be better characterized as human-environment interactions, human-ecology, or human-landuse, since that is what most of the essays focus upon. This is a good book for anyone interested in the history of landuse and environmental change in the Northwest. The readings are aimed at a scholarly audience, so the tempo, tone, and diction are more like "academic" writing and less like "popular" writing. In other words: this book is not always a fast and easy read (this is why I didn't give it 5 stars). Another small criticism: due to the format of the endnotes, I sometimes found it difficult to track down the original references mentioned in the text.All in all -- important information and a useful book, definitely of regional interest.