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Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States. In this book, Gray Whaley examines relations among newcomers and between newcomers and Native peoples — focusing on political sovereignty, religion, trade, sexuality, and the land — from initial encounters to Oregon’s statehood. He emphasizes Native perspectives, using the Chinook word Illahee (homeland) to refer to the indigenous world he examines.
Whaley argues that the process of Oregon’s founding is best understood as a contest between the British Empire and a nascent American one, with Oregon’s Native people and their lands at the heart of the conflict. He identifies race, republicanism, liberal economics, and violence as the key ideological and practical components of American settler-colonialism. Native peoples faced capriciousness, demographic collapse, and attempted genocide, but they fought to preserve Illahee even as external forces caused the collapse of their world. Whaley’s analysis compellingly challenges standard accounts of the quintessential antebellum “Promised Land.”
Editions of Oregon and the Collapse of Illahee
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- ISBN 9798890882370
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Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States. In this book, Gray Whaley examines relations among newcomers and between newcomers and Native peoples — focusing on political sovereignty, religion, trade, sexuality, and the land — from initial encounters to Oregon’s statehood. He emphasizes Native perspectives, using the Chinook word Illahee (homeland) to refer to the indigenous world he examines.
Whaley argues that the process of Oregon’s founding is best understood as a contest between the British Empire and a nascent American one, with Oregon’s Native people and their lands at the heart of the conflict. He identifies race, republicanism, liberal economics, and violence as the key ideological and practical components of American settler-colonialism. Native peoples faced capriciousness, demographic collapse, and attempted genocide, but they fought to preserve Illahee even as external forces caused the collapse of their world. Whaley’s analysis compellingly challenges standard accounts of the quintessential antebellum “Promised Land.”
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Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States. In this book, Gray Whaley examines relations among newcomers and between newcomers and Native peoples — focusing on political sovereignty, religion, trade, sexuality, and the land — from initial encounters to Oregon’s statehood. He emphasizes Native perspectives, using the Chinook word Illahee (homeland) to refer to the indigenous world he examines.
Whaley argues that the process of Oregon’s founding is best understood as a contest between the British Empire and a nascent American one, with Oregon’s Native people and their lands at the heart of the conflict. He identifies race, republicanism, liberal economics, and violence as the key ideological and practical components of American settler-colonialism. Native peoples faced capriciousness, demographic collapse, and attempted genocide, but they fought to preserve Illahee even as external forces caused the collapse of their world. Whaley’s analysis compellingly challenges standard accounts of the quintessential antebellum “Promised Land.”
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Oregon and the Collapse of Illahee has 320 page(s)
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Gray H. Whaley
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Oregon and the Collapse of Illahee is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780807833674) and paperback(ISBN 9780807871096) and ebook(ISBN 9780807898314) and ebook(ISBN 9781469603971) and ebook(ISBN 9798890882370) and ebook(ISBN 9798893132946)
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