The Making of the American Landscapes
Michael P. Conzen(Editor)
Routledge (Publisher)
Published in April 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-04-917010-0 (ISBN)
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Description
The nature and evolution of the cultural landscape of North America are revealed with authority in this book. The editor has drawn together carefully integrated contributions from a team of scholars of landscape - geographers, historians, archaeologists and others - to present a readable and fully illustrated account of a widely appealing subject. Ranging from an introduction to the physical environment of the continent, through the impact of the Asian peoples who crossed the Bering Straits 15,000 years ago to "Landscapes Redesigned for the Automobile", the chapters cover the richness of landscape history and evolution, with all its ethnic, ecological, economic, aesthetic and political dimensions. The book is sure to enjoy a wide readership, not least among students following courses within schools of geography, history, or landscape arthitecture.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
line drawings, b&w photographs, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
989 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-04-917010-0 (9780049170100)
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Content
Nature's continent, Stanley W.Trimble; the Indian legacy in the American landscape, Karl W.Butzer; Spanish legacy in the borderlands, David Hornbeck; French landscapes in North America, Richard Colebrook Harris; the Northeast and the making of American geographical habits, Peirce F.Lewis; plantations mould the South, Sam Bowers Hilliard; toward a national landscape, Hildegard Binder Johnson; the clearing of the forests, Michael Williams; settlement of the American grassland, John C.Hudson; challenging the desert, James L.Wescoat; democratic utopia and the American landscape, James E.Vance Jr; ethnicity on the land, Michael P.Conzen; the new industrial order, David R.Meyer; the Americanization of the city, Edward K.Muller; landscapes redesigned for the automobile, John A.Jakle; the imprint of central authority, Wilbur Zelinsky; landscapes of private power and wealth, William K.Wyckoff; the house in the vernacular landscape, John Brinckerhoff Jackson.