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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zelinsky, Wilbur, 1921-2013
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
National characteristics, American.
Cultural geography > United States.
Human geography > United States.
Géographie culturelle > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Civilization.
Cultural geography.
Historical geography.
Human geography.
United States > Historical geography.
United States > Civilization.
États-Unis > Civilisation.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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?

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