| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940–2000. By William G. Robbins. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. xxvi, 414 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-295-98442-2.)
William G. Robbins's Landscapes of Conflict continues the story begun in his Landscapes of Promise: The Oregon Story, 1800–1940 (1997). It is a major contribution, for Oregon has played a key role in environmental developments in the United States since World War II. By focusing on a variety of issues, Robbins provides better understanding of the movement as a whole than do the studies of individual issues, selected activists, and restricted locales that are the norm in environmental history.	1
New Deal and wartime success strengthened confidence in planning and the human capacity to manipulate and control developments, long prominent in the American psyche, and convinced policy makers that economic progress and environmental quality, long cherished by Oregonians, were compatible. Planning and technology would reconcile the two.	. . .

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