William G. Robbins
Teoksen Landscapes of Promise: The Oregon Story, 1800-1940 tekijä
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William G. Robbins is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of History at Oregon State University
Tekijän teokset
The Great Northwest: The Search for Regional Identity (Culture and Environment in the Pacific West.) (2001) 12 kappaletta
Nature's Northwest: The North Pacific Slope in the Twentieth Century (The Modern American West) (2011) 5 kappaletta
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- 1935-09-20
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Although people from all social classes acquired and developed westem resources, especially land, Robbins demonstrates that those with surplus investment capital dominated all economic activities. No single factor was more important than capital invested in railroads and other intemal improvements that created an infrastructure that facili- tated subsequent economic expansion. By the late rüneteenth century, the West was integrally linked with national, even global, industrial enterprises. Robbins believes that mining had a greater Influence on westem history than any other industry, and that wageworkers were as important as subsistence farmers, cattlemen, or sourdough placer miners in the region's development....”… (lisätietoja)