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Book Synopsis
A reader in cultural geography.

Table of Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • I. The World of Cultural Geography
    • 1. Foreword: Culture and Geography: Thirty Years of Advance (Philip L. Wagner)
    • 2. Re-reading Cultural Geography (Peter J. Hugill & Kenneth E. Foote)
  • II. How the World Looks
    • 3. Introduction (Nathan M. Smith & Kenneth E. Foote)
    • 4. The Mexican American Cu(ltural Capital (Daniel D. Arreola)
    • 5. The Symbolism of the Skyscraper: Case Studies of New York's First Tall Buildings (Mona Domosh)
    • 6. The Westward-moving House: Three American Houses and the People Who Lived in Them (J. B. Jackson)
    • 7. Common Houses, Cultural Spoor (Peirce Lewis)
    • 8. American Wests: Preface to a Geographical Interpretation (Donald W. Meinig)
    • 9. Speculations on the New American Landscapes (Robert B. Riley)
    • 1O. Looking at a World That Speaks (Miles Richardson)
  • III. How the World Works
    • 11. Introduction (Kent Mathewson)
    • 12. Diffusionism: A Uniformitarian Critique (James M. Blaut)
    • 13. Ecological Imperialism: The Overseas Migration of Western Europeans as a Biological Phenomenon (Alfred W. Crosby)
    • 14. A Staple Interpretation of Slavery and Free Labor (Carville Earle)
    • 15. Cultural Preadaptation and the American Forest Frontier: The Role of New Sweden (Terry G. Jordan)
    • 16. Ecological Change, Inflation, and Migration in the Far Western Caribbean (Bernard Nietschmann)
    • 17. Wetland Production and Smallholder Persistence: Agricultural Change in a Highland Peruvian Region (Karl S. Zimmerer)
    • 18. Cultural Geography at Work (James J. Parsons)
  • IV. What the World Means
    • 19. Introduction (Kenneth E. Foote)
    • 20. Filming the Fens: A Visual Interpretation of Regional Character (Jacquelin Burgess)
    • 21. Environmental Theology: Trends in Christian Thought (Robin W. Doughty)
    • 22. Aesthetic Ideology and Urban Design (Barbara Rubin Hudson)
    • 23. Imagining the Future at Niagara Falls (Patrick McGreevy)
    • 24. Place and the Novelist (Douglas C. D. Pocock)
    • 25. Way-Keeping, Way-Finding, Way-Losing: Disorientation in a Complex Environment (Joseph Sonnenfeld)
    • 26. Worlds of Meaning: Cultural Geography and the Imagination (Denis E. Cosgrove)
  • V. Future Worlds of Cultural Geography
    • 27. Introduction (Kenneth E. Foote)
    • 28. After the Civil War: Reconstructing Cultural Geography as Heterotopia (James S. Duncan)
    • 29. Toward a Cultural Curriculum for the Future: A First Approximation (Karl W. Butzer)
    • 30. Cultural Geography as Discovery (Christopher L. Salter)
    • 31. Afterword: New Interests, Unsolved Problems, and Persisting Tasks (Marvin W. Mikesell)
  • References
  • Editors and Contributors
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 21/11/1994
      ISBN13: 9780292724846, 978-0292724846
      ISBN10: 0292724845

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A reader in cultural geography.

      Table of Contents
      • Preface and Acknowledgments
      • I. The World of Cultural Geography
        • 1. Foreword: Culture and Geography: Thirty Years of Advance (Philip L. Wagner)
        • 2. Re-reading Cultural Geography (Peter J. Hugill & Kenneth E. Foote)
      • II. How the World Looks
        • 3. Introduction (Nathan M. Smith & Kenneth E. Foote)
        • 4. The Mexican American Cu(ltural Capital (Daniel D. Arreola)
        • 5. The Symbolism of the Skyscraper: Case Studies of New York's First Tall Buildings (Mona Domosh)
        • 6. The Westward-moving House: Three American Houses and the People Who Lived in Them (J. B. Jackson)
        • 7. Common Houses, Cultural Spoor (Peirce Lewis)
        • 8. American Wests: Preface to a Geographical Interpretation (Donald W. Meinig)
        • 9. Speculations on the New American Landscapes (Robert B. Riley)
        • 1O. Looking at a World That Speaks (Miles Richardson)
      • III. How the World Works
        • 11. Introduction (Kent Mathewson)
        • 12. Diffusionism: A Uniformitarian Critique (James M. Blaut)
        • 13. Ecological Imperialism: The Overseas Migration of Western Europeans as a Biological Phenomenon (Alfred W. Crosby)
        • 14. A Staple Interpretation of Slavery and Free Labor (Carville Earle)
        • 15. Cultural Preadaptation and the American Forest Frontier: The Role of New Sweden (Terry G. Jordan)
        • 16. Ecological Change, Inflation, and Migration in the Far Western Caribbean (Bernard Nietschmann)
        • 17. Wetland Production and Smallholder Persistence: Agricultural Change in a Highland Peruvian Region (Karl S. Zimmerer)
        • 18. Cultural Geography at Work (James J. Parsons)
      • IV. What the World Means
        • 19. Introduction (Kenneth E. Foote)
        • 20. Filming the Fens: A Visual Interpretation of Regional Character (Jacquelin Burgess)
        • 21. Environmental Theology: Trends in Christian Thought (Robin W. Doughty)
        • 22. Aesthetic Ideology and Urban Design (Barbara Rubin Hudson)
        • 23. Imagining the Future at Niagara Falls (Patrick McGreevy)
        • 24. Place and the Novelist (Douglas C. D. Pocock)
        • 25. Way-Keeping, Way-Finding, Way-Losing: Disorientation in a Complex Environment (Joseph Sonnenfeld)
        • 26. Worlds of Meaning: Cultural Geography and the Imagination (Denis E. Cosgrove)
      • V. Future Worlds of Cultural Geography
        • 27. Introduction (Kenneth E. Foote)
        • 28. After the Civil War: Reconstructing Cultural Geography as Heterotopia (James S. Duncan)
        • 29. Toward a Cultural Curriculum for the Future: A First Approximation (Karl W. Butzer)
        • 30. Cultural Geography as Discovery (Christopher L. Salter)
        • 31. Afterword: New Interests, Unsolved Problems, and Persisting Tasks (Marvin W. Mikesell)
      • References
      • Editors and Contributors
      • Index

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