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The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River (Richard White)
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Richard White, a leading historian of the American West and environmental history, examines the Columbia River as a place where natural processes, human labor, technology, and power have become inseparable. The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River is a concise work of environmental history, published in the Hill and Wang Critical Issues series, that uses one river system to rethink broader assumptions about nature and culture. Rather than treating the Columbia as either untouched wilderness or a purely engineered resource, White presents it as a system shaped by flowing water, salmon, Native communities, industrial capitalism, federal power, and modern energy demand. The book focuses especially on work and energy, showing how people and the river have continually acted upon one another. Its purpose is not only to narrate environmental degradation, but also to explain how human attempts to harness a river transformed the ecology, economy, and meaning of the Pacific Northwest.
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#ColumbiaRiverhydropower #organicmachineconcept #salmonrunsandNativecommunities #energyandlaborinenvironmentalhistory #naturecultureentanglement #TheOrganicMachine
Richard White, a leading historian of the American West and environmental history, examines the Columbia River as a place where natural processes, human labor, technology, and power have become inseparable. The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River is a concise work of environmental history, published in the Hill and Wang Critical Issues series, that uses one river system to rethink broader assumptions about nature and culture. Rather than treating the Columbia as either untouched wilderness or a purely engineered resource, White presents it as a system shaped by flowing water, salmon, Native communities, industrial capitalism, federal power, and modern energy demand. The book focuses especially on work and energy, showing how people and the river have continually acted upon one another. Its purpose is not only to narrate environmental degradation, but also to explain how human attempts to harness a river transformed the ecology, economy, and meaning of the Pacific Northwest.
