William G Robbins
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 373818 |
|---|---|
| NOME | William G Robbins |
| PRENOMES | William G |
| SOBRENOME | Robbins |
| ASSINATURA | ROBBINS W G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Oregon State University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1969 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Jared Farmer. Trees in Paradise
Jared Farmer's “natural and unnatural history of California trees” (p. xx) is a smart book, using redwoods, eucalyptus, citruses, and palms—indigenous and naturalized species—to craft a narrative about “the U.S. region most endowed with rare resources and fine amenities” (p. xxii). The coming of Spaniards in the late eighteenth century and the hordes of Euro-Americans who flocked to the Pacific Coast following the discovery of gold in 1848 severe…
Workers and the Wild
Landscapes of Conflict
Journal Article Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940–2000 Get access Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940–2000. By Robbins William G.. Weyerhauser Environmental Books Series. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. xxiii + 414 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.) Max G. Geier Max G. Geier Western Oregon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Qua…
The Oregon-American Lumber Company
The Oregon-American Lumber Company
Book Review| February 01 2004 The Oregon-American Lumber Company: Ain’t No More William Robbins William Robbins Oregon State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2004) 26 (1): 182–184. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2004.26.1.182 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon…
Selling Yellowstone
Journal Article Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature Get access Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature. By Barringer Mark Daniel. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. vii + 238 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) William G. Robbins William G. Robbins Oregon State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quart…
Land in the American West
Although my credentials are in political science, early in my career it occurred to me that trying to understand the politics of land in the American West without attention to history was analogous to the fable of the blind men defining an elephant. If nothing else, the collection of essays assembled by William G. Rob-bins and James C. Foster confirm that the politics and the history of the West are joined at the hip. But I think these essays off…
Cornucopian Dreams
United States stood powerful and confident in the critical autumn months of 1945, brimming with a sense of buoyant optimism now that the Pacific was reaching its climactic end. In a brief period of time, it had built up an enormously productive industrial capacity. As historian Howard Zinn ob? served, the nation had entered the declaring the right of all peoples to be free of external control, and in the end it had defeated the machines of both G…
The Great Northwest
Land in the American West
Journal Article Land in the American West: Private Claims and the Common Good Get access Land in the American West: Private Claims and the Common Good. Edited by Robbins William G. Foster James C.. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000. xi + 222 pp. Maps, tables, notes, index. $20.00, paper.) Robert W. Righter Robert W. Righter Southern Methodist University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western …
Great River of the West
Journal Article Great River of the West: Essays on the Columbia River Get access Great River of the West: Essays on the Columbia River. Edited by Lang William L. Carriker Robert C.. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. 181 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index. $18.95, paper.) William G. Robbins William G. Robbins Oregon State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterl…
Local and Regional Stories
Book Review| April 01 1999 Local and Regional Stories A Tale of Two TownsDuane A. SmithBeach of Heaven: A History of Wahkiakum CountyIrene MartinRiver Road: Essays on Manitoba and Prairie HistoryGerald FriesenOpenings: A Meditation on History, Method, and Sumas LakeLaura CameronMontana Campfire Tales: Fourteen Historical NarrativesDave Walter William G. Robbins William G. Robbins Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google S…
In Pursuit of Historical Explanation
Suggesting the need to bring the margins and peripheries of our stories together in some form of interpretive synthesis, this essay posits the argument that we can better understand the American West through interpretations grounded in the theoretical and empirical workings of capitalism
Landscapes of Promise
Landscapes of Promise is the first comprehensive environmental history of the early years of a state that has long been associated with environmental protection. Covering the period from early human habitation to the end of World War II, William Robbins shows that the reality of Oregon's environmental history involves far more than a discussion of timber cutting and land-use planning. Robbins demonstrates that ecological change is not only a crea…
The Killing of History
Landscapes of Promise
Journal Article Landscapes of Promise: The Oregon Story, 1800–1940 Get access Landscapes of Promise: The Oregon Story, 1800–1940. By Robbins William G.. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. xvii + 392 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Gordon B. Dodds Gordon B. Dodds Portland State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume …
Rufus Woods, the Columbia River, & the Building of Modern Washington
Journal Article Rufus Woods, the Columbia River, & the Building of Modern Washington. By Robert E. Ficken, The Organic Machine. By Richard White and Saving the Salmon: A History of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Efforts to Protect Anadromous Fish on the Columbia and Snake Rivers. By Lisa Mighetto and Wesley J. Ebel Get access William G. Robbins William G. Robbins Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon Search for other works by this author …
Three Frontiers
Journal Article Three Frontiers: Family, Land, and Society in the American West, 1850–1900. By Dean L. May. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xiv, 313 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-52143499-8.) Get access William G. Robbins William G. Robbins Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 736–737, https://doi…
Colony and Empire
Journal Article Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation of the American West. By William G. Robbins. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994. xvi, 255 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0645-9.) Get access James C. Williams James C. Williams De Anza College, Cupertino, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 752–753, https://doi.or…
Colony and Empire
Journal Article Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation of the American West Get access Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation of the American West. By Robbins William G.. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994. xvi + 255 pp. Notes, index. $29.95.) Peter J. Hill Peter J. Hill Wheaton College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 3, Autumn 199…
Capitalism on the Frontier
Journal Article Capitalism on the Frontier: Billings and the Yellowstone Valley in the Nineteenth Century. By Carroll Van West. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. xiv, 281 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8032-4755-9.) Get access William G. Robbins William G. Robbins Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Page…
Flooding the Courtrooms
Journal Article Flooding the Courtrooms: Law and Water in the Far West Get access Flooding the Courtrooms: Law and Water in the Far West. By Miller M. Catherine. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. 255 pp. Maps, table, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $45.00.) William G. Robbins William G. Robbins Oregon State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 25,…
The United States Forest Service and the Problem of History
Book Review| July 01 1993 The United States Forest Service and the Problem of History The U.S. Forest Service: A HistoryHarold K. SteenDecade of Change: The Remarking of Forest Service Statutory Authority during the 1970sDennis C. Le Master100 Years of Federal ForestryWilliam W. BergoffenFire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural FireStephen J. PyneU.S. Forest Service Grazing and Rangelands: A HistoryWilliam D. RowleyTimber and the…
Creating the West
Laying Siege to Western History
From the time of the early sea otter trade along the North Pacific Coast at the close of the eighteenth century through the California gold rush, the Pacific slope had fronted westerly to oceanic routes for travel, for trade, and to a significant degree-in the case of San Francisco-for sources of investment capital.' The transcontinental rail links that spanned North America during the last thirty years of the century firmed up and further integr…
Colony and Empire
Journal Article Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation of the American West. By William G. Robbins. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994. xvi, 255 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0645-9.) Get access James C. Williams James C. Williams De Anza College, Cupertino, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 752–753, https://doi.or…
Hard Times in Paradise
Opportunity and Persistence in the Pacific Northwest
HISTORIANS WHO DESCRIBE the American West as offering optimum opportunity assume, usually without reference to adequate evidence, that initiative, frugality, innovation, and hard work assured economic success. According to these writers, such qualities were characteristic of the westward movement in the nineteenth century.1 This vision of the American West is especially prominent in memoirs, local histories, and travel accounts.2 In most instance…
Laying Siege to Western History
From the time of the early sea otter trade along the North Pacific Coast at the close of the eighteenth century through the California gold rush, the Pacific slope had fronted westerly to oceanic routes for travel, for trade, and to a significant degree-in the case of San Francisco-for sources of investment capital.' The transcontinental rail links that spanned North America during the last thirty years of the century firmed up and further integr…
Landscapes of Promise
Landscapes of Promise is the first comprehensive environmental history of the early years of a state that has long been associated with environmental protection. Covering the period from early human habitation to the end of World War II, William Robbins shows that the reality of Oregon's environmental history involves far more than a discussion of timber cutting and land-use planning. Robbins demonstrates that ecological change is not only a crea…
In Pursuit of Historical Explanation
Suggesting the need to bring the margins and peripheries of our stories together in some form of interpretive synthesis, this essay posits the argument that we can better understand the American West through interpretations grounded in the theoretical and empirical workings of capitalism
The United States Forest Service and the Problem of History
Book Review| July 01 1993 The United States Forest Service and the Problem of History The U.S. Forest Service: A HistoryHarold K. SteenDecade of Change: The Remarking of Forest Service Statutory Authority during the 1970sDennis C. Le Master100 Years of Federal ForestryWilliam W. BergoffenFire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural FireStephen J. PyneU.S. Forest Service Grazing and Rangelands: A HistoryWilliam D. RowleyTimber and the…
The "Plundered Province" Thesis and the Recent Historiography of the American West
Research Article| November 01 1986 The "Plundered Province" Thesis and the Recent Historiography of the American West William G. Robbins William G. Robbins Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1986) 55 (4): 577–597. https://doi.org/10.2307/3639495 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn E…
Voluntary Cooperation vs. Regulatory Paternalism
In the 1920s, leaders of the lumber business tried to bring stability to their industry through vigorous trade association activity conducted with the encouragement of then Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover. Despite the optimism of association spokespeople and publicists, the hoped for stability was not attained because the associations were incapable of relieving the intra- and inter- industry competition lumbermen confronted. Nevertheless, the …
The Massachusetts Bay Company
Notes1. Such reliable and well‐documented secondary sources as Richard S. Dunn's Puritans and Yankees (Princeton, 1962) provide nothing in the way of new evidence or even a new interpretation. Standard works such as Charles M. Andrews' The Colonial Period of American History (New Haven, 1934–1938), Vol. I, The Colonial Settlements, and Frances Rose‐Troup's The Massachusetts Bay Company and its Predecessors (New York, 1930) have relatively complet…
Opportunity and Persistence in the Pacific Northwest
HISTORIANS WHO DESCRIBE the American West as offering optimum opportunity assume, usually without reference to adequate evidence, that initiative, frugality, innovation, and hard work assured economic success. According to these writers, such qualities were characteristic of the westward movement in the nineteenth century.1 This vision of the American West is especially prominent in memoirs, local histories, and travel accounts.2 In most instance…
The Willamette Valley Project of Oregon
THE POLITICS AND ECONOMICS of water resource development are prominent issues in American history. The long struggle over water rights in the arid Southwest, the engineering plans to harness the ample precipitation of the Tennessee River Valley, the various multipurpose water-development projects in the Pacific Northwest, and the engineering works originating on the drawing boards of the Bureau of Reclamation or the Army Corps of Engineers have a…
Voluntary Cooperation vs. Regulatory Paternalism
In the 1920s, leaders of the lumber business tried to bring stability to their industry through vigorous trade association activity conducted with the encouragement of then Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover. Despite the optimism of association spokespeople and publicists, the hoped for stability was not attained because the associations were incapable of relieving the intra- and inter- industry competition lumbermen confronted. Nevertheless, the …
Lumberjacks and Legislators
Journal Article Lumberjacks and Legislators: Political Economy of the U.S. Lumber Industry, 1890–1941 Get access Lumberjacks and Legislators: Political Economy of the U.S. Lumber Industry, 1890–1941. By Robbins William G.. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1982. xiv + 268 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $22.50.) Harold T. Pinkett Harold T. Pinkett Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academi…
Lumberjacks and Legislators
Journal Article Lumberjacks and Legislators: Political Economy of the U.S. Lumber Industry, 1890–1941. By William G. Robbins. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1982. xiv + 268 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.50.) Get access James E. Fickle James E. Fickle Memphis State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 4, March 1984, …
Lumberjacks and Legislators
Regionalism and the Pacific Northwest
Journal Article Regionalism and the Pacific Northwest Get access Regionalism and the Pacific Northwest. Edited by Robbins William G. Frank Robert J. Ross Richard E.. (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1983. 246 pp. Notes, index. $16.95, cloth; $9.95, paper.) Kent D. Richards Kent D. Richards Central Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 16, Issue…
The Social Context of Forestry
n the timber-rich Pacific coast country stretching from California's Humboldt Bay north into British Columbia and the Alaskan panhandle, the forest resource has always been the centerpiece to the area's economic culture. Although other forms of activity have shaped the region-fishing, ship building, mining, and farming-the men and women who toiled in the logging camps and in the mills have been the mainstay of the economy. It was their labor that…
The "Plundered Province" Thesis and the Recent Historiography of the American West
Research Article| November 01 1986 The "Plundered Province" Thesis and the Recent Historiography of the American West William G. Robbins William G. Robbins Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1986) 55 (4): 577–597. https://doi.org/10.2307/3639495 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn E…
American Forestry
Journal Article American Forestry: A History of National, State, & Private Cooperation. By William G. Robbins. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985. xv + 344 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $26.95.) Get access Harold T. Pinkett Harold T. Pinkett Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 4, March 1986, Page 933, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908902 Publi…
This Well-Wooded Land
Journal Article This Well-Wooded Land: Americans and Their Forests from Colonial Times to the Present Get access This Well-Wooded Land: Americans and Their Forests from Colonial Times to the Present. By Cox Thomas R.et al. . (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985. xvii + 325 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $27.95.) William G. Robbins William G. Robbins Oregon State University Search for other works by t…
American Forestry
Journal Article American Forestry: A History of National, State, and Private Cooperation Get access American Forestry: A History of National, State, and Private Cooperation. By Robbins William G.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985. xv + 344 pp. Tables, notes, index. $26.95.) Donald Worster Donald Worster Brandeis University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 17,…
Company Town
Journal Article Company Town: Potlatch, Idaho, and the Potlatch Lumber Company. By Keith C. Petersen. (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1987. XX + 284 pp. Cloth, $24.95; paper, $15.95.) Get access William G. Robbins William G. Robbins Oregon State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 644–645, https://doi.org/10.2307/188…
Workers and Dissent in the Redwood Empire by Daniel A. Cornford
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE 922 Book Reviews—Labor and Technology to a set of technological solutions, introducing mechanization on a massive scale. For the most part, this involved borrowing components from the available pool of technology, then adapting and recombining them. The creativeness of this process receives only lukewarm ac knowledgement from Radforth. The search for new technology had its focus in the Woodlands Section of the Canadian Pul…
Workers and Dissent in the Redwood Empire
In the history business, calling a work a classic can be a double-edged sword.Daniel Cornford's book is a classic in the best way.His analysis of California's redwood forests and those who turned them into lumber is a finely wrought piece of historical scholarship
Hard Times in Paradise
Western History
Journal Article Western History: A Dialectic on the Modern Condition Get access William G. Robbins William G. Robbins professor of history Oregon State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 20, Issue 4, November 1989, Pages 429–449, https://doi.org/10.2307/969494 Published: 01 November 1989
Hard Times in Paradise
Hard Times in Paradise
Journal Article Hard Times in Paradise: Coos Bay, Oregon, 1850–1986 Get access Hard Times in Paradise: Coos Bay, Oregon, 1850–1986. By Robbins William G.. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988. xiv + 194 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. $30.00, cloth; $14.95, paper.) Richard S. Kirkendall Richard S. Kirkendall University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historica…
Laying Siege to Western History
From the time of the early sea otter trade along the North Pacific Coast at the close of the eighteenth century through the California gold rush, the Pacific slope had fronted westerly to oceanic routes for travel, for trade, and to a significant degree-in the case of San Francisco-for sources of investment capital.' The transcontinental rail links that spanned North America during the last thirty years of the century firmed up and further integr…
A Celebration of Work
'This book is more than just the story of a working man's life of toil, joys and troubles...This is also the memoir of a union activist fighting for industrial democracy, quality craftsmanship and self-actualization through work' - West. 'Nothing is better for a person than to have an opportunity to do meaningful work', says Norman Best in this memoir detailing his forty-eight years as a blue-collar worker. During those years, he built and mainta…
Creating the West
The United States Forest Service and the Problem of History
Book Review| July 01 1993 The United States Forest Service and the Problem of History The U.S. Forest Service: A HistoryHarold K. SteenDecade of Change: The Remarking of Forest Service Statutory Authority during the 1970sDennis C. Le Master100 Years of Federal ForestryWilliam W. BergoffenFire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural FireStephen J. PyneU.S. Forest Service Grazing and Rangelands: A HistoryWilliam D. RowleyTimber and the…
Capitalism on the Frontier
Journal Article Capitalism on the Frontier: Billings and the Yellowstone Valley in the Nineteenth Century. By Carroll Van West. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. xiv, 281 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8032-4755-9.) Get access William G. Robbins William G. Robbins Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Page…
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