The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape
1st Edition
Published on 31. March 2023
398 pages
978-1-000-83292-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape provides a comprehensive overview of the American landscape in a way fit for the twenty-first century, not only in its topical and regional scope but also in its methodological and disciplinary diversity.
Critically surveying the contemporary scholarship on the American landscape, this companion brings together scholars from the social sciences and humanities who focus their work on understanding the polyphonic evolution of the United States' landscape. It simultaneously assesses the development of the US landscape as well as the scholarly thought that has driven innovation and continued research about that landscape. Four broad sections focus on key areas of scholarship: environmental landscapes, social, cultural, and popular identities in the landscape, political landscapes, and urban/economic landscapes. A special essay, "American Landscapes Under Siege" and accompanying short case studies call attention to the legacies and realities of race in the American landscape, bridging the discussion of social and political landscapes.
This companion offers an invaluable and up-to-date guide for scholars and graduate students to current thinking across the range of disciplines which converge in the study of place, including Geography, Cultural Studies, and History as well as the interdisciplinary fields of American Studies, Environmental Studies, and Planning.
Critically surveying the contemporary scholarship on the American landscape, this companion brings together scholars from the social sciences and humanities who focus their work on understanding the polyphonic evolution of the United States' landscape. It simultaneously assesses the development of the US landscape as well as the scholarly thought that has driven innovation and continued research about that landscape. Four broad sections focus on key areas of scholarship: environmental landscapes, social, cultural, and popular identities in the landscape, political landscapes, and urban/economic landscapes. A special essay, "American Landscapes Under Siege" and accompanying short case studies call attention to the legacies and realities of race in the American landscape, bridging the discussion of social and political landscapes.
This companion offers an invaluable and up-to-date guide for scholars and graduate students to current thinking across the range of disciplines which converge in the study of place, including Geography, Cultural Studies, and History as well as the interdisciplinary fields of American Studies, Environmental Studies, and Planning.
Reviews / Votes
"The remarkable volume brings together some of the most thoughtful, insightful scholars of the American landscape in a book that provides a revealing portrait into the vitality and relevance of landscape study. The book is full of thought-provoking insights into the changing American scene. It serves as a powerful reminder of why 'reading the landscape' is such a valuable component of efforts to understand the cultural, social, and political world we inhabit."Alec Murphy, University of Oregon, USA.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
4 Tables, black and white; 25 Line drawings, black and white; 70 Halftones, black and white; 95 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN-13
978-1-000-83292-1 (9781000832921)
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Chris W. Post | Alyson L. Greiner | Geoffrey L. Buckley
The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape
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Chris W. Post | Alyson L. Greiner | Geoffrey L. Buckley
The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape
Book
03/2023
1st Edition
Routledge
€288.50
Shipment within 15-20 days
Persons
Chris W. Post is Professor of Geography at Kent State University at Stark.
Alyson L. Greiner is Professor and Head of Geography at Oklahoma State University.
Geoffrey L. Buckley is Professor of Geography and Interim Associate Dean, Ohio Honors Program, Honors Tutorial College, Ohio University.
Alyson L. Greiner is Professor and Head of Geography at Oklahoma State University.
Geoffrey L. Buckley is Professor of Geography and Interim Associate Dean, Ohio Honors Program, Honors Tutorial College, Ohio University.
Content
Foreword: Reading the Landscape Introduction: Twenty-first Century American Landscapes Part I: Environmental Landscapes: The American Environment 1 Changes Across Rural America: Agricultural Landscapes 2 Fluid Landscapes 3 Energy Landscapes 4 Wastescapes 5 Public Landscapes 6 American Landscapes of Environmental Injustice Part II: Social, Cultural, and Popular Identities in the American Landscape 7 "This is Not the America I Know": Reading the White Unseen Within the American Landscape 8 Gender, Sexuality, and Landscape 9 Ethnicity and Transnationalism 10 Interpreting the Landscapes of a New Religious America 11 The American Cinematic Landscape Inscribed @Work 12 Music and the American Landscape: Rhythms of Continuity and Change 13 Sports and the American Landscape 14 From Post-Scarcity Utopia to Zombie-Infested Hellscape: Continuity and Change in the Landscape of a Future North America Special Essay: Bridging Social and Political Landscapes: American Landscapes Under Siege: A Provocation Part III: US Political Landscapes 15 American Imperalism 16 Iconographic Landscapes of US Borders and Immigration Controls 17 (De)constructing the Grid: The Public Land Survey System and the Production of Abstract Space in the Early Republic 18 Landscape and Politics: The 2020 Presidential Election in the United States 19 America's Contemporary Commemorative Landscapes: Themes and Practices in Memorial Mania 20 Place (Re)Naming 21 The Landscape of Incarceration in the United States Part IV: Urban and Economic Landscapes in the US 22 Urban Sustainability 23 The Ordinary-Extraordinary Automobile Landscape 24 Tourism in the American Landscape 25 The Changing Rural Landscape 26 Rooted in Place-Retail on the American Landscape 27 Post-Industrial Landscapes 28 Labor and the Changing Economic Landscape of the United States Afterword
