02646nam 22005413 450 991016034200332120230126214924.0(CKB)3710000001024919(MiAaPQ)EBC6042752(Au-PeEL)EBL6042752(OCoLC)970026480(EXLCZ)99371000000102491920210901d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEarning the Rockies How Geography Shapes America's Role in the WorldWestminster :Random House Publishing Group,2017.©2017.1 online resource (150 pages)0-399-58823-X 0-399-58821-3 Invocation -- Earning the Rockies -- A Continental Empire -- Notes on a Vertical Landscape -- Notes on a Horizontal Landscape -- Cathay -- Epilogue."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.LandscapesSocial aspectsUnited StatesCity and town lifeUnited StatesImperialismHistoryNational characteristics, AmericanUnited StatesGeographyUnited StatesDescription and travelUnited StatesSocial conditions1980-United StatesTerritorial expansionUnited StatesForeign relationsPhilosophyLandscapesSocial aspectsCity and town lifeImperialismHistory.National characteristics, American.306.0973Kaplan Robert D115348MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910160342003321Earning the Rockies2892127UNINA