Earning the rockies : How geography shapes america's role in the world. / / Robert D Kaplan

• Autore: Kaplan Robert D
• Pubblicazione: Prince Frederick, : HighBridge Audio, 2017
• Edizione: Unabridged.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (6 audio files) : digital
• Disciplina: 306.0973
• Soggetto topico: Nonfiction; History; Politics; Travel
• Classificazione: HIS036000POL062000TRV025000
• Persona (resp. second.): DufrisWilliam
• Note generali: Unabridged.
• Sommario/riassunto: As a boy, Robert D. Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father's evocative stories about traveling across America as a young man, travels in which he learned to understand the country from a ground-level perspective. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation and understanding of American geography that is often lost in the jet age. The history of westward expansion is examined here in a new light-not just a story of genocide and individualism, but also of communalism and a respect for the limits of a water-starved terrain-to understand how settling the West shaped our national character, and how it should shape our foreign policy. In his clear-eyed and moving meditations on the American landscape, Kaplan lays bare the roots of American greatness-the fact that we are a nation, empire, and continent all at once-and how we must reexamine those roots, and understand our geography, in order to confront the challenging, anarchic world that Kaplan describes. Earning the Rockies is a short epic, a story both personal and global in scope.
• Altri titoli varianti: Earning the Rockies
• Titolo autorizzato: Earning the Rockies
• ISBN: 1-68168-408-X
• Formato: Audiolibri
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910163273503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II