
John M. Findlay
Professor: American West, Pacific Northwest
jfindlay@u.washington.edu
Education
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1982.
Selected Bibliography
People of Chance: Gambling in American Society from Jamestown to Las
Vegas. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986
Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture after 1940.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992
The Atomic West. Ed. with Bruce Hevly. Seattle: Center for the
Study of the Pacific Northwest and University of Washington Press, 1998
Power and Place in the North American West. Ed. With Richard White.
Seattle: Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest and University
of Washington Press, 1999
Parallel Destinies: Canadians, Americans and the Western Border.
Ed. With Ken Coates. Seattle: Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest
and University of Washington Press, 2002.
Research in Progress
"P.S. Your Bombs Are Certainly Wonderful": Technology, Community
and Culture at Hanford, 1942-1992. co-authored with Bruce Hevly.
"History of the American West, 1940-2000," vol. 6 of The
History of the West,ed. Richard W. Etulain, a multi-volume history
of the American West, under contract to University of Nebraska Press.
"A Sense of Where We Are: History and Literature of the Pacific Northwest"
(with Dan Lamberton),
http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/sense/
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