Earning the Rockies : how geography shapes America's role in the world
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Earning the Rockies : how geography shapes America's role in the world
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The work Earning the Rockies : how geography shapes America's role in the world represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Thunder Bay Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Earning the Rockies : how geography shapes America's role in the world
- Title remainder
- how geography shapes America's role in the world
- Statement of responsibility
- Robert D. Kaplan
- Subject
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- United States -- Description and travel
- Landscapes -- Social aspects -- United States
- United States -- Territorial expansion
- Imperialism -- History
- National characteristics, American
- United States -- Foreign relations | Philosophy
- City and town life -- United States
- Kaplan, Robert D, 1952- -- Travel -- United States
- United States -- Geography
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "As a boy, Robert Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father tell evocative stories about traveling across America in his youth, travels in which he learned to understand the country literally from the ground up. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation of American geography often lost in the jet age. Along the way, he witnesses both prosperity and decline--increasingly cosmopolitan cities that thrive on globalization, impoverished towns denuded by the loss of manufacturing--and paints a bracingly clear picture of America today. Kaplan lays bare the roots of American greatness--the fact that we are a nation, empire, and continent all at once--and how westward expansion shaped our national character, and should shape our foreign policy"--Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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