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Book SynopsisPost-World War II Oregon was a place of optimism and growth, a spectacular natural region from ocean to high desert that seemingly provided opportunity in abundance. This title addresses efforts by individuals and groups within and outside the state to resolve these conflicts.
Trade Review"This is, make no mistake about it, an important book. Oregon faces massive land-use and environmental issues, and this history of how we really got to where we are is relevant and predictive. Those who control how Oregon will go in the future need to read this book thoroughly.And that includes the people who have the most power..the voters."
* Salem Statesman Journal *
"There is much to admire in [this] book: careful scholarship, brisk writing, and an obvious love and respect for Oregon's history and people. And many fascinating stories..Historians and environmentalists will be elaborating his themes, working from the borders of his achievement, for some time to come."
* The Oregonian *
"[Landscapes of Conflict] is impressive, a work valuable for its sweep, relevant to many current concerns, and important for the understanding it can provide even to those with interests focused on areas far distant from Oregon."
* The Journal of American History *
"Robbins brings a critical and moral clarity to his research and analysis that turns the specifics of one state's environmental conflicts into a synecdoche for broader struggles with modernity, capitalism, and ecological sustainability. He also adds significantly to a growing body of broad-minded, theoretically-informed scholarship about the Pacific Northwest, a region whose historiography has in the past tended toward either the provincially myopic or the gushingly exceptionalist. Robbins makes the case, in other words, that Oregon matters."
* H-NET BOOK REVIEW (Published by H-Environment@h-net.msu.edu (June 2005) *
Table of ContentsForeword: Still Searching for Eden at the End of the Oregon Trail by William Cronon
Preface
Prologue: A Time to Remember
I. Postwar Promise
1. The Great Hope for the New Order
2. Into the Brave New World
II. Making Agriculture Modern
3. Bringing Perfection to the Fields
4. The Wonder World of Pesticides
III. Industrial Forestry Management
5. Planning and Technical Efficiency in the Forests
6. Intensive Forestry and Citizen Activism
IV. Of Rivers and Land
7. Richard Neuberger's Conservation Politics
8. Tom McCall and the Struggle for the Willamette
9. Ecologies of Sprawl: The Land-Use Nexus
Epilogue: The Special Place
Notes
Bibliography
Index
