The making of the American landscape / edited by Michael P. Conzen. - Second edition. - xxi, 543 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (some colour) ; 25 cm

Previous ed.: Boston : Unwin Hyman, 1990.

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

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

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Human geography--United States
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