The Making of the American Landscape

ISBN-13: 9780415950060 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 546 str.

Michael P. Conzen

Opis

The only compact yet comprehensive survey of environmental and cultural forces that have shaped the visual character and geographical diversity of the settled American landscape. The book examines the large-scale historical influences that have molded the varied human adaptation of the continent’s physical topography to its needs over more than 500 years. It presents a synoptic view of myriad historical processes working together or in conflict, and illustrates them through their survival in or disappearance from the everyday landscapes of today.

Spis treści

1. Nature’s Bequest  2. Indian Settlement Landscapes  3. Hispanic Landscape Traditions  4. The French Imprint on North America  5. Americanizing English Landscape Habits  6. The Plantation Regime  7. Gridding a National Landscape  8. Clearing the Forests  9. Remaking the Prairies  10. Watering the Deserts  11. Designing American Utopias  12. Inscribing Ethnicity on the Land  13. Organizing Religious Landscapes  14. Mechanizing the American Earth  15. Building American Cityscapes  16. Asserting Central Authority  17. Creating Landscapes of Civil Society  18. Imposing Landscapes of Private Power and Wealth  19. Paving America for the Automobile  20. Developing Corporate Consumption Venues

O autorze

Michael Conzen is Professor of Geography at the University of Chicago