LEADER 02646nam 22005413 450 001 9910160342003321 005 20230126214924.0 035 $a(CKB)3710000001024919 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6042752 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6042752 035 $a(OCoLC)970026480 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001024919 100 $a20210901d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEarning the Rockies $eHow Geography Shapes America's Role in the World 210 1$aWestminster :$cRandom House Publishing Group,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017. 215 $a1 online resource (150 pages) 311 $a0-399-58823-X 311 $a0-399-58821-3 327 $aInvocation -- Earning the Rockies -- A Continental Empire -- Notes on a Vertical Landscape -- Notes on a Horizontal Landscape -- Cathay -- Epilogue. 330 2 $a"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. 606 $aLandscapes$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aCity and town life$zUnited States 606 $aImperialism$xHistory 606 $aNational characteristics, American 607 $aUnited States$xGeography 607 $aUnited States$xDescription and travel 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$y1980- 607 $aUnited States$xTerritorial expansion 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$xPhilosophy 615 0$aLandscapes$xSocial aspects 615 0$aCity and town life 615 0$aImperialism$xHistory. 615 0$aNational characteristics, American. 676 $a306.0973 700 $aKaplan$b Robert D$0115348 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910160342003321 996 $aEarning the Rockies$92892127 997 $aUNINA