The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River (Hill and Wang Critical Issues)

White, Richard

ISBN 10: 0809015838 / ISBN 13: 9780809015832

Published by Hill and Wang (edition First Thus Used), 1996

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The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River (Hill and Wang Critical Issues)
• Publisher: Hill and Wang (edition First Thus Used)
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809015838
• ISBN 13: 9780809015832
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Thus Used.
• Condition: Fair

About this title

Synopsis

The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.

In this pioneering study, White explores the relationship between the natural history of the Columbia River and the human history of the Pacific Northwest for both whites and Native Americans. He concentrates on what brings humans and the river together: not only the physical space of the region but also, and primarily, energy and work. For working with the river has been central to Pacific Northwesterners' competing ways of life. It is in this way that White comes to view the Columbia River as an organic machine--with conflicting human and natural claims--and to show that whatever separation exists between humans and nature exists to be crossed.

About the Author

Richard White is a Professor of Philosophy at Creighton University in Omaha, USA. His recent books include: The Spiritual Guide (2017), The Heart of Wisdom: a Philosophy of Spiritual Life (2013), and Radical Virtues (2008).