Table of Contents:
  • Coboway's tale : a story of power and places along the Columbia / James P. Ronda
  • Violence, justice, and state power in the New Mexican borderlands, 1780-1880 / James F. Brooks
  • Making "Indians" in British Columbia : power, race, and the importance of place / John Lutz
  • Federal power and racial politics in Los Angeles during World War II / Kevin Allen Leonard
  • Race, rhetoric, and regional identity : boosting Los Angeles, 1880-1930 / William Deverell and Douglas Flamming
  • Recasting identities : American-born Chinese and Nisei in the era of the Pacific War / Chris Friday
  • Tourism as colonial economy : power and place in western tourism / Hal Rothman
  • Creating wealth by consuming place : timber management on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest / Paul W. Hirt
  • "Politics is at the bottom of the whole thing" : spatial relations of power in Oregon salmon management / Joseph E. Taylor III
  • Nature's industries : the rhetoric of industrialism in the Oregon country / William G. Robbins
  • Lighting out for the territory : women, mobility, and western place / Virginia Scharff.