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Earning the Rockies : how geography shapes America's role in the world / Robert D. Kaplan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kaplan, Robert D., 1952---Travel--United States.
- Kaplan, Robert D.
- Kaplan, Robert D., 1952-.
- Landscapes--Social aspects.
- Landscapes.
- Geography.
- Travel.
- United States--Geography.
- United States.
- United States--Description and travel.
- Landscapes--Social aspects--United States.
- City and town life--United States.
- City and town life.
- United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.
- Social conditions.
- United States--Territorial expansion.
- Territorial expansion.
- Imperialism--History.
- Imperialism.
- History.
- National characteristics, American.
- United States--Foreign relations--Philosophy.
- International relations.
- Philosophy.
- Diplomatic relations--Philosophy.
- American national characteristics.
- United States--Travel.
- United States--Social conditions--1980-.
- United States--Foreign relations.
- Local Subjects:
- City and town life.
- Imperialism--History.
- American national characteristics.
- United States--Geography.
- United States--Travel.
- United States--Social conditions--1980-.
- United States--Territorial expansion.
- United States--Foreign relations.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 201 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [2017]
- Summary:
- "As a boy, Robert Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father tell evocative stories about traveling across America in his youth, travels in which he learned to understand the country literally from the ground up. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation of American geography often lost in the jet age. Along the way, he witnesses both prosperity and decline--increasingly cosmopolitan cities that thrive on globalization, impoverished towns denuded by the loss of manufacturing--and paints a bracingly clear picture of America today. Kaplan lays bare the roots of American greatness--the fact that we are a nation, empire, and continent all at once--and how westward expansion shaped our national character, and should shape our foreign policy"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Invocation
- Earning the Rockies
- A Continental Empire
- Notes on a Vertical Landscape
- Notes on a Horizontal Landscape
- Cathay
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-183) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780399588211
- 0399588213
- OCLC:
- 947954032
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