| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.4

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Washington State: The Inaugural Decade, 1889–1899. By Robert E. Ficken. (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2007. vii + 288 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $21.95, paper.)

A sequel to the author's history of Washington's territorial period, this volume follows the same methodology. Making extensive use of contemporary materials and selected secondary sources, Ficken examines the political and economic development of Washington State's formative decade, as well as social and cultural issues that were important to the state's citizens. The role of outside investment for railroads and heavy industry, such as lumber and mining, was a critical part of the dynamic of the late territorial and early statehood period. Ficken examines the contrasting demands of capitalists seeking returns compared to those of city and state government officials striving to protect community interests and those of small farmers or tradesmen. Society still paid homage to the concept of Jeffersonian yeomanry in the 1890s, although Washington State, like the nation, was completing the transition from a rural agrarian economy to an urban and industrial one.

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