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Not yet a placeless land : tracking an evolving American geography /

"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. The American population, after all, spends much of its time shopping or eating in look...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zelinsky, Wilbur, 1921-2013
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?