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The making of the American landscape / edited by Michael P. Conzen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2010Edition: Second editionDescription: xxi, 543 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (some colour) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415950066
  • 9780415950060
  • 0415950074
  • 9780415950077
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.20973 22
LOC classification:
  • GF503 .M35 2010
Contents:
Introduction / Michael P. Conzen -- Recognizing Nature's bequest / Stanley W. Trimble -- Retrieving American Indian landscapes / Karl W. Butzer -- Refashioning Hispanic landscapes / David Hornbeck -- Retracing French landscapes in North America / Cole Harris -- Americanizing English landscape habits / Pierce F. Lewis -- Transforming the Southern plantation / Charles S. Aiken -- Gridding a national landscape / Hildegard Binder Johnson -- Clearing the forests / Michael Williams -- Remaking the prairies / John C. Hudson -- Watering the deserts / James L. Westcoat, Jr. -- Inscribing ethnicity on the land / Susan W. Hardwick -- Organizing religious landscapes / Wilbur Zelinsky -- Mechanizing the American earth / David R. Meyer -- Building American cityscapes / Edward K. Muller -- Asserting central authority / Wilbur Zelinksy -- Creating landscapes of civil society / Joseph S. Wood -- Imposing landscapes of private power and wealth / William K. Wyckoff -- Paving America for the automobile / John A. Jakle -- Developing large-scale consumer landscapes / Michael P. Conzen -- Designing the American utopia : reflections / Bret Wallach.
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Previous ed.: Boston : Unwin Hyman, 1990.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-525) and index.

Introduction / Michael P. Conzen -- Recognizing Nature's bequest / Stanley W. Trimble -- Retrieving American Indian landscapes / Karl W. Butzer -- Refashioning Hispanic landscapes / David Hornbeck -- Retracing French landscapes in North America / Cole Harris -- Americanizing English landscape habits / Pierce F. Lewis -- Transforming the Southern plantation / Charles S. Aiken -- Gridding a national landscape / Hildegard Binder Johnson -- Clearing the forests / Michael Williams -- Remaking the prairies / John C. Hudson -- Watering the deserts / James L. Westcoat, Jr. -- Inscribing ethnicity on the land / Susan W. Hardwick -- Organizing religious landscapes / Wilbur Zelinsky -- Mechanizing the American earth / David R. Meyer -- Building American cityscapes / Edward K. Muller -- Asserting central authority / Wilbur Zelinksy -- Creating landscapes of civil society / Joseph S. Wood -- Imposing landscapes of private power and wealth / William K. Wyckoff -- Paving America for the automobile / John A. Jakle -- Developing large-scale consumer landscapes / Michael P. Conzen -- Designing the American utopia : reflections / Bret Wallach.

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