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Author : Oregon Historical Society
Release : 1920
Genre : Local history
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Book Synopsis The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society by : Oregon Historical Society
Download or read book The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society written by Oregon Historical Society. This book was released on 1920. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oregon Historical Society
Release : 1901
Genre : Northwest, Pacific
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Book Synopsis Oregon Historical Quarterly by : Oregon Historical Society
Download or read book Oregon Historical Quarterly written by Oregon Historical Society. This book was released on 1901. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mario Jimenez Sifuentez
Release : 2016-03-08
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Of Forests and Fields by : Mario Jimenez Sifuentez
Download or read book Of Forests and Fields written by Mario Jimenez Sifuentez. This book was released on 2016-03-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2016 Choice Oustanding Academic Title Just looking at the Pacific Northwest’s many verdant forests and fields, it may be hard to imagine the intense work it took to transform the region into the agricultural powerhouse it is today. Much of this labor was provided by Mexican guest workers, Tejano migrants, and undocumented immigrants, who converged on the region beginning in the mid-1940s. Of Forests and Fields tells the story of these workers, who toiled in the fields, canneries, packing sheds, and forests, turning the Pacific Northwest into one of the most productive agricultural regions in the country. Employing an innovative approach that traces the intersections between Chicana/o labor and environmental history, Mario Sifuentez shows how ethnic Mexican workers responded to white communities that only welcomed them when they were economically useful, then quickly shunned them. He vividly renders the feelings of isolation and desperation that led to the formation of ethnic Mexican labor organizations like the Pineros y Campesinos Unidos Noroeste (PCUN) farm workers union, which fought back against discrimination and exploitation. Of Forests and Fields not only extends the scope of Mexican labor history beyond the Southwest, it offers valuable historical precedents for understanding the struggles of immigrant and migrant laborers in our own era. Sifuentez supplements his extensive archival research with a unique set of first-hand interviews, offering new perspectives on events covered in the printed historical record. A descendent of ethnic Mexican immigrant laborers in Oregon, Sifuentez also poignantly demonstrates the links between the personal and political, as his research leads him to amazing discoveries about his own family history... www.mariosifuentez.com
Author : Oregon Historical Society
Release : 1951
Genre : Northwest, Pacific
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Book Synopsis The Oregon Historical Quarterly by : Oregon Historical Society
Download or read book The Oregon Historical Quarterly written by Oregon Historical Society. This book was released on 1951. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara S. Mahoney
Release : 2017
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Salem Clique by : Barbara S. Mahoney
Download or read book The Salem Clique written by Barbara S. Mahoney. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the decade of the 1850s, the Oregon Territory progressed toward statehood in an atmosphere of intense political passion and conflict. Editors of rival newspapers blamed a group of young men whom they named the 'Salem Clique' for the bitter party struggles of the time. Led by Asahel Bush, editor of the Oregon Statesman, the Salem Clique was accused of dictatorship, corruption, and the intention of imposing slavery on the Territory. The Clique, critics maintained, even conspired to establish a government separate from the United States, conceivably a 'bigamous Mormon republic.' While not in agreement with some of the more extreme contemporary accusations against the Clique, many historians have concluded that its members were vicious and unscrupulous men who were able, because of their command of the Democratic Party, to impose their hegemony on the Oregon Territory's inhabitants. Other scholars have seen them as merely another manifestation of the contentious politics of the period. Although the Salem Clique has been given considerable prominence in nearly every account of Oregon's Territorial period, there has not been a detailed study of its role until now. What sort of people were these men? What was their impact on the issues, events, and movements of the period? What role did they play in the years after Oregon became a state? Historian Barbara Mahoney sets out to answer these and many other questions in this comprehensive and deeply researched history"--Publisher description.
