Carl Abbott

Carl Abbott is professor of urban studies and planning at Portland State University and the coeditor of the Pacific Historical Review. He is the author of numerous books on urban history and the development of cities in the United States.

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The Metropolitan Frontier

Cities in the Modern American West

The University of Arizona Press

This Choice Outstanding Academic Title and winner of the Best Book in North American Urban History (Urban History Association) offers the first comprehensive overview of urban growth in the American West.

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Portland in Three Centuries

The Place and the People

Oregon State University Press

A compact and comprehensive history of Portland from first European contact to the twenty-first century, Portland in Three Centuries introduces the women and men who have shaped Oregon’s largest city. The expected politicians and business leaders appear, but Carl Abbott also highlights workers and immigrants, union members and dissenters, women at work and in the public realm, artists and activists, and other movers and shakers.  
Incorporating social history and contemporary scholarship in his narrative, Abbott examines current metropolitan character and issues, giving close attention to historical background. He explores the context of opportunities and problems that have helped to shape the rich mosaic that is Portland.  
This revised and updated second edition includes greater attention to the Indigenous peoples of the Portland region, Portland’s communities of color, and the challenges of recent years that have thrust Portland into the national spotlight.

A highly readable character study of a city, and enhanced by more than sixty historic and contemporary images, Portland in Three Centuries will appeal to readers interested in Portland, in Oregon, and in Pacific Northwest history.

 

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Sporting Oregon

A Pictorial History of Early Oregon Sports

By Brian S. Campf; Foreword by Carl Abbott; Afterword by John T. Hawk
Oregon State University Press

For thirty years, Brian Campf collected vintage photographs and ephemera related to Oregon sports. Sporting Oregon includes more than three hundred images that offer an overview of the first fifty years of organized sports in the state, primarily baseball, football, and basketball, but also such pastimes as horse racing, track, hockey, tennis, and cricket.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Colorado

A History of the Centennial State, Fifth Edition

University Press of Colorado

Since 1976, newcomers and natives alike have learned about the rich history of the magnificent place they call home from Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. In the fifth edition, coauthors Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel incorporate recent events, scholarship, and insights about the state in an accessible volume that general readers and students will enjoy.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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How Cities Won the West

Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America

University of New Mexico Press

The author traces the evolution of early frontier towns at the beginning of Western expansion to the thriving urban centers they have become today.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Planning a New West

The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area

Oregon State University Press
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