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The Making of the American landscape
- Title
- The Making of the American landscape / edited by Michael P. Conzen.
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | GF501 .M35 1994 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Conzen, Michael P.
- Description
- xvi, 433 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Alternative Title
- American landscape.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-423) and index.
- Contents
- Nature's continent / Stanely W. Trimble -- The Indian legacy in the American landscape / Karl W. Butzer -- Spanish legacy in the borderlands / David Hornbeck -- French landscapes in North America / Cole Harris -- The Northeast and the making of American geographical habits / Peirce F. Lewis -- Plantations and the moulding of the southern landscape / Sam B. 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, Jr. -- 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 -- Afterword / Michael P. Conzen.
- ISBN
- 0415911788 (pb)
- 0049170090 (hb)
- LCCN
- 89020047
- OCLC
- ocm31161207
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries