The Making of the American Landscape 2nd Edition, (Ebook PDF)

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0415950066
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0415950060
• Author: Michael P Conzen

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 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.

Table contents:

Chap. 1 Nature bequest

Chap. 2 Indian settlement landscapes

Chap. 3 Hispanic landscape traditions

Chap. 4 The French imprint on North America

Chap. 5 Americanizing English landscape habits

Chap. 6 The plantation regime

Chap. 7 Gridding a national landscape

Chap. 8 Clearing the forests

Chap. 9 Remaking the prairies

Chap. 10 Watering the deserts

Chap. 11 Designing American utopias

Chap. 12 Inscribing ethnicity on the land

Chap. 13 Organizing religious landscapes

Chap. 14 Mechanizing the American earth

Chap. 15 Building American cityscapes

Chap. 16 Asserting central authority

Chap. 17 Creating landscapes of civil society

Chap. 18 Imposing landscapes of private power and wealth

Chap. 19 Paving America for the automobile

Chap. 20 Developing corporate consumption venues