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04292aam a2200469 i 4500 001 931DCD9C403511EB87AA299C42ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201217010015 008 200205t20202020oruab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019055808 020 $a 0870719904 020 $a 9780870719905 035 $a (OCoLC)1126211508 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-cn-bc $a n-usp-- $a n-cn-bc 050 00 $a HC107.A19 $b F67 2020 100 1 $a Foss, Christopher P., $e author. 245 10 $a Facing the world : $b defense spending and international trade in the Pacific Northwest since World War II / $c Christopher P. Foss. 264 1 $a Corvallis : $b Oregon State University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a x, 338 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Part I: Globalizing the Pacific Northwest through national defense -- Washington: the national security state within a state -- The evolving politics of defense and national security in Oregon -- Mark Hatfield and the new national security -- Part II: Globalizing the Pacific Northwest through trade -- The opportunities and perils of postwar international trade -- Nintendo power: the growth of foreign direct investment and international trade in the Pacific Northwest since -- "We were way out in front": Vic Atiyeh and the growth of international trade in Oregon. 520 $a "Before the Second World War, the states of Washington and Oregon were thinly populated economic backwaters of the United States. Even the major cities of Portland and Seattle were dependent on agricultural industries, especially timber, for their economic health. That all changed during World War II and the Cold War. By the dawn of the twenty-first century, the Pacific Northwest boasted a more diversified economy. Beer, tourism, and high tech moved in alongside timber and wheat as the region's mainstay industries. In Washington, especially, a Cold War-driven military and national security state set up shop as an economic behemoth even as debates over the costs and consequences of the new Atomic Age raged. Facing the World highlights these changes, as well as the politicians, business leaders, and ordinary people who helped bring them about. At the center of the story, Senators Henry Jackson, Wayne Morse, Slade Gorton, and Mark Hatfield; Congressman Tom Foley; and Governor Vic Atiyeh worked diligently for a generation to transform the region from insular and backward to cosmopolitan and forward-looking. Aligning the region with national security and international trade policies, these politicians made the Pacific Northwest economy what it is today. Through extensive research in congressional and federal archives, historian Christopher P. Foss vividly brings to life the discussions, conflicts, and controversies that shaped this political era. Though it wasn't perfect, its fading legacy of leadership is a lesson for our own time. Facing the World will prove a valuable resource to historians, political scientists, and civic-minded residents of the Pacific Northwest"-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 10 $a United States. $b Department of Defense $x Appropriations and expenditures. 610 17 $a United States. $b Department of Defense. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01852447 650 0 $a Economic development $z Northwest, Pacific $x History. 651 0 $a Northwest, Pacific $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a National security $z Northwest, Pacific $x History. 650 0 $a Defense industries $z Northwest, Pacific $x History. 651 0 $a Northwest, Pacific $x Politics and government. 650 7 $a Commerce. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00869279 650 7 $a Defense industries. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00889634 650 7 $a Economic development. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901785 650 7 $a Expenditures, Public. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00918345 650 7 $a National security. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01033711 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 651 7 $a Pacific Northwest. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01242543 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20210721015511.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=931DCD9C403511EB87AA299C42ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search