Seattle, Past to Present , interprets the history of the foremost city in the Northwest and traces the implications of that history for the city's present and future. In the process Seattle emerges not as a rough, half-formed frontier town but as a soft city of streets and houses, middle-class in aspiration and achievement; Roger Sale asks how it came to be that way. The methods Sale employs range from demographic analysis and residential survey to portraiture and personal observation and reflection. He highlights what was ...
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Seattle, Past to Present , interprets the history of the foremost city in the Northwest and traces the implications of that history for the city's present and future. In the process Seattle emerges not as a rough, half-formed frontier town but as a soft city of streets and houses, middle-class in aspiration and achievement; Roger Sale asks how it came to be that way. The methods Sale employs range from demographic analysis and residential survey to portraiture and personal observation and reflection. He highlights what was most important in each of the city's major periods from the founding, when the settlers, in waiting forty years for the railroads to come, meanwhile built a city to which the railroads had to come, down to the post-Boeing Seattle of the 1970's, when the city tried for the first time to discover a sense of itself based on the truths and lessons of its own past. Along the way one finds a good deal that has been obscured or ignored in other books on Seattle and in most books on the history of American cities: a discussion of the economic diversity of late-nineteenth-century Seattle which allowed it to grow; a description of the major achievements of the first boom years, in parks, boulevards, and neighborhoods of quiet eleganced; portraits of people like Vernon Parrington, Nellie Cornish, and Mark Tobey who came to Seattle and flourished here; an assessment of Seattle's new vitality as the result of natives and newcomers mixing both in harmony and in antagonism.
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Hardcover in good to very good condition. All inside pages are in great shape. Minor shelf wear to the dust jacket. Dust jacket wrapped in protective cellophane. Ex library.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. University of Washington Press, 1976. 2nd printing. Tight and unmarked. Full cloth binding. 273pp. Dust jacket is price-clipped, in a protective mylar cover. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo-8"-9" Tall.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book Octavo, hardcover, near fine in VG pictorial dj. (light yellowing at edges) An interpretation of the History of the foremost city in the Pacific Northwest--traces the implications of that history for the city's present and future. Highlights what was most important in each of the city's major periods from the founding to the post Boeing Seattle of the 1970s. Illustrated with b/w photographs.273 pp. Map endpapers showing the city of Seattle and streets, parks, islands, landmarks.
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Good in Good jacket. Ex-Library Hard Cover--Good/Good--Ex-Library--Good reading copy--Other than interior hinges reinforced, book and dust jacket show moderate wear--273 pages with index and sections of photography.
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Good. Pages have some minor underlining in pencil. Binding is tight, cover very good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 294 p. Audience: General/trade.
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Very Good. Book Octavo, softcover, near fine in blue and white pictorial wraps. Downtown map of Seattle in the 1870's at back. An interpretation of the History of the foremost city in the Pacific Northwest--traces the implications of that history for the city's present and future. Highlights what was most important in each of the city's major periods from the founding to the post Boeing Seattle of the 1970s. Illustrated with b/w photographs. 273 pp. including index.
