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Not yet a placeless land : tracking an evolving American geography / Wilbur Zelinsky.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zelinsky, Wilbur, 1921-2013, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human geography--United States.
- Human geography.
- Cultural geography--United States.
- Cultural geography.
- National characteristics, American.
- United States--Civilization.
- United States.
- United States--Historical geography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (378 pages) : illustrations, tables
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Today it is taken as a given that the United States has undergone a nationwide process of homogenization--that a country once rich in geographic and cultural diversity has subsided into a placeless sameness.
- Contents:
- The argument
- E Pluribus unum? the mashing vs. the sorting of America
- Pondering the built landscape
- The theater of the unpredictable
- Territorial diversities in the cultural realm: yea and nay
- The regional factor
- Is the jury still out?
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-181-3
- OCLC:
- 794700499
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