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The making of the American landscape
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- Creator
- edited by Michael P. Conzen
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Second edition
- New York : Routledge, 2010
- Physical Details
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- xxi, 543 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0415950066, 1317793706, 9781317793700, 9780415950077, 9780415950060, 0415950074, 9781315810829, 1315810824, 1306853451
- OCLC
- ocn881369569, ocn183147631, ocn881416550
- Previous ed.: Boston : Unwin Hyman, 1990.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction / Michael P. Conzen -- Recognizing Nature's bequest / Stanley W. Trimble -- Retrieving American Indian landscapes / Karl W. Butzer -- Refashioning Hispanic landscapes / David Hornbeck -- Retracing French landscapes in North America / Cole Harris -- Americanizing English landscape habits / Peirce F. Lewis -- Transforming the Southern plantation / Charles S. Aiken -- Gridding a national landscape / Hildegard Binder Johnson -- Clearing the forests / Michael Williams -- Remaking the prairies / John C. Hudson -- Watering the deserts / James L. Westcoat, Jr. -- Inscribing ethnicity on the land / Susan W. Hardwick -- Organizing religious landscapes / Wilbur Zelinsky -- Mechanizing the American earth / David R. Meyer -- Building American cityscapes / Edward K. Muller -- Asserting central authority / Wilbur Zelinksy -- Creating landscapes of civil society / Joseph S. Wood -- Imposing landscapes of private power and wealth / William K. Wyckoff -- Paving America for the automobile / John A. Jakle -- Developing large-scale consumer landscapes / Designing the American utopia : reflections / Bret Wallach