American Space/American Place : : Geographies of the Contemporary United States / / Jonathan M. Smith, John Agnew.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Agnew, John,; Smith, Jonathan M.,
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Paul C.,; Agnew, John A.,; Duncan, James S.,; Forest, Benjamin,; Jonas, Andrew E. G.,; Kodras, Janet E.,; Lambert, David R.,; Rigby, David L.,; Sharp, Joanne P.,; Smith, Jonathan M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

This book offers geographical perspectives on the condition of the United States at the outset of the twenty-first century. It compares the American ideals of liberty, equality, individual opportunity, and social improvement with the contemporary condition of the regions, states and localities - the...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• The authors
• 1. Introduction
• PART I ENVIRONMENTAL IDEALS AND REALITIES
• 2. The place of nature
• 3. The place of value
• PART II POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS OF THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
• 4. America, frontier nation: From abstract space to worldly place
• 5. Local territories of government: From ideals to politics of place and scale
• 6. Urban and regional restructuring in the second half of the twentieth century
• PART III SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF AMERICANNESS
• 7. "With liberty and justice for all": Negotiating freedom and fairness in the American income distribution
• 8. A new geography of identity? Race, ethnicity, and American citizenship
• 9. Landscape, aesthetics, and power
• 10. Mediascapes
• CONCLUSION
• 11. American geographical ironies: A conclusion
• Discussion questions
• Further reading
• Some useful websites
• Index