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Place and belonging in America /

"How did the American people come to develop a moral association with this land, such that their very experience of nationhood was rooted in, and their republican virtues depended upon, that land? And what is happening now as the exclusivity of that moral linkage between people and land becomes...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jacobson, David, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Terra firma
  • An American Eden
  • Surveying the landscape : place and identity in the early republic
  • Nature's nation : preserving the future
  • Spatial rhythms : changing the past
  • Intangible property : a multihued landscape
  • The labyrinth of the soul.