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The Routledge companion to the American landscape / edited by Chris W. Post, Alyson L. Greiner, and Geoffrey L. Buckley.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge international handbooks
- Routledge handbooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cultural landscapes--United States.
- Cultural landscapes.
- Geography--Social aspects--United States.
- Geography.
- Landscapes--Political aspects--United States.
- Landscapes.
- Environmental geography--United States.
- Environmental geography.
- United States--Historical geography.
- United States.
- Geography--Social aspects.
- Historical geography.
- Landscapes--Political aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxii, 365 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
- Biography/History:
- Chris W. Post is Professor of Geography at Kent State University at Stark. Alyson L. Greiner is Professor and Head of Geography at Oklahoma State University. Geoffrey L. Buckley is Professor of Geography and Interim Associate Dean, Ohio Honors Program, Honors Tutorial College, Ohio University.
- Summary:
- "The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape provides a comprehensive overview of the American landscape in a way fit for the twenty-first century, not only in its topical and regional scope but also in its methodological and disciplinary diversity. Critically surveying the contemporary scholarship on the American landscape, this companion brings together scholars from the social sciences and humanities who focus their work on understanding the polyphonic evolution of the United States' landscape. It simultaneously assesses the development of the U.S. landscape as well as the scholarly thought that has driven innovation and continued research about that landscape. Four broad sections focus on key areas of scholarship: environmental landscapes, social, cultural, and popular identities in the landscape, political landscapes, and urban/economic landscapes. A special essay, "American Landscapes Under Siege" and accompanying short case studies call attention to the legacies and realities of race in the American landscape, bridging the discussion of social and political landscapes. An invaluable and up-to-date guide for scholars and graduate students to current thinking across the range of disciplines which converge in the study of place, including Geography, Cultural Studies, History as well as the interdisciplinary fields of American Studies, Environmental Studies, and Planning"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Foreword: Reading the landscape / Richard H. Schein
- Introduction : Twenty-first Century American landscapes / Chris W. Post, Alyson L. Greiner, and Geoffrey L. Buckley
- Part I: Environmental landscapes : the American environment / Geoffrey L. Buckley. Changes across rural America : agricultural landscapes / Lisa M. Butler Harrington and Christopher R. Laingen ; Fluid landscapes / Craig E. Colten ; Energy landscapes / Brian C. Black ; Wastescapes / Martin V. Melosi ; Public landscapes / Randall K. Wilson and Yolanda Youngs ; American landscapes of environmental injustice / Ryan Holifield
- Part II: Social, cultural, and popular identities in the American landscape / Alyson L. Greiner. "This is not the America I know" : reading the white unseen within the American landscape / Aretina R. Hamilton ; Gender, sexuality, and landscape / Christina E. Dando ; Ethnicity and transnationalism / Emily Skpo and Stephen Cho Suh ; Interpreting the landscapes of a new religious America / Samuel Avery-Quinn ; The American cinematic landscape inscribed [at sign]work . Chris Lukinbeal ; Music and the American landscape : rhythms of continuity and change / David J. Keeling and Thomas L. Bell ; Sports and the American landscape / John Lauermann ; From post-scarcity utopia to zombie-infested hellscape : continuity and change in the landscape of a future North America / Fiona Davidson ; Special essay: Bridging social and political landscapes: American Landscapes under siege : a provocation / Joshua Inwood and Derek H. Alderman
- Part III: US political landscapes / Chris W. Post. American imperialism / Barney Warf ; Iconographic landscapes of US borders and immigration controls / Kenneth D. Madsen ; (De)constructing the grid : the public land survey system and the production of abstract space in the early republic / Timothy G. Anderson ; Landscape and politics : the 2020 presidential election in the United States / Fred M. Shelley and Heather Hollen ; America's contemporary commemorative landscapes : themes and practicies in memorial mania / Erika Doss ; Place (re)naming / Jordan P. Brasher ; The landscape of incarceration in the United States / Matthew L. Mitchelson
- Part IV: Urban and economic landscapes in the US / Chris W. Post. Urban sustainability / Lisa Benton-Short and Melissa Keeley ; The ordinary-extraordinary automobile landscape / Ellen Hostetter ; Tourism in the American landscape / Velvet Nelson ; The changing rural landscape / Andrew Husa ; Rooted in place : retail on the American landscape / Emily Felete ; Post-industrial landscapes / Mark Alan Rhodes II and Sarah Fayen Scarlett ; Labor and the changing economic landscape of the United States / Andrew Herod
- Afterword / William Wyckoff.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 06, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Routledge companion to the American landscape
- ISBN:
- 9781003121800
- 1003121802
- 1000832929
- 9781000832952
- 1000832953
- 9781000832921
- OCLC:
- 1357155872
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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