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Earning the Rockies : How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
| Earning the Rockies : How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World |
| Autore | Kaplan Robert D |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Westminster : , : Random House Publishing Group, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (150 pages) |
| Disciplina | 306.0973 |
| Soggetto topico |
Landscapes - Social aspects - United States
City and town life - United States Imperialism - History National characteristics, American |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Invocation -- Earning the Rockies -- A Continental Empire -- Notes on a Vertical Landscape -- Notes on a Horizontal Landscape -- Cathay -- Epilogue. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910160342003321 |
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| Westminster : , : Random House Publishing Group, , 2017 | ||
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Geology and Landscape Evolution : General Principles Applied to the United States
| Geology and Landscape Evolution : General Principles Applied to the United States |
| Autore | DiPietro Joseph A |
| Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | San Diego : , : Elsevier, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina | 551.40973 |
| Soggetto topico |
Landscapes - United States - History
Landscape changes - United States - History Landscape assessment - United States - History |
| ISBN | 0-12-811191-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover -- Geology and Landscape Evolution -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Conversions -- I. Keys to Understanding Landscape Evolution -- 1 The Tortoise and the Hare -- How Slow Is Slow? -- Maps, Cross-Sections, and Scale -- Physiographic Regions and Provinces -- Interior Plains and Plateaus -- Appalachian Mountain System -- Coastal Plain -- Cordilleran Mountain System -- Components, Forcing Agents, Mechanisms, and Landscape Response -- Geology, Landscape, and Tectonics -- Geologic Time Scale -- Questions -- 2 River Systems -- Divides -- Mississippi River System -- Atlantic Seaboard-Gulf Coast River System -- St. Lawrence River System -- Rio Grande-West Texas River System -- Colorado River System -- Columbia River System -- California River System -- Great Basin River System -- Hudson Bay River System -- Comparison of River Systems With Physiographic Provinces -- Questions -- 3 Component: The Rock/Sediment Type -- Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition -- The Four Rock/Sediment Types -- Sedimentary Rock -- Crystalline Rock -- Volcanic Rock -- Unconsolidated Sediment -- The Rock Cycle -- Rock Hardness and Differential Erosion -- Influence of Bedrock on Landscape -- Landscape in Sedimentary Rocks -- Landscape in Crystalline Rocks -- Landscape in Volcanic Rocks -- Landscape in Unconsolidated Sediment -- Karst Landscape -- Distribution of Rock/Sediment Type Among the 26 Physiographic Provinces -- Questions -- 4 Component: The Structural Form -- Structural Form: The Style of Rock Deformation -- Folds -- Vertical Joint Sets -- Faults -- Fault Reactivation -- Brittle and Ductile Faults -- Influence of Dipping Layers on Landscape -- Vertical to Steep-Dipping Rock Layers -- Horizontal to Gently Dipping Rock Layers -- Response of Dipping Layers to Erosional Lowering -- Cuestas and Hogbacks.
Topographic Form and Structural Form -- Recognition of Active Faults -- Structure-Controlled and Erosion-Controlled Landscape -- Questions -- 5 Forcing Agent: The Tectonic System -- The Four Forcing Agents -- Tekton, the Carpenter, the Builder -- Climate, the Sculptor -- Isostasy, the Equalizer -- Sea Level, the Baseline -- The Tectonic Plate -- Plate Boundaries -- Movement of Tectonic Plates -- Rifting and Passive Continental Margins -- Active Continental Margins -- Tectonic Accretion -- Orogeny -- Unconformities -- The Atlantic Passive Continental Margin -- The Pacific Active Continental Margin -- Thermal Plumes and Hot Spots -- Thermal Plumes in the United States -- Questions -- 6 Forcing Agent: The Climate System -- Present-Day Climate Zones -- Controls on Climate -- Latitude -- Proximity to Large Water Bodies -- Global Wind Patterns -- The Tilt of the Earth's Axis of Rotation -- Mountains -- Questions -- 7 Forcing Agent: Isostasy -- Tectonic versus Isostatic Uplift -- Elevation of Continents and Ocean Basins -- Mountain Building and Preservation -- Tectonic Loads -- Thermal Isostasy -- Glaciers -- Deposition -- Erosion -- Questions -- 8 Forcing Agent: Sea Level Change -- Cause of Sea Level Change -- Measuring Sea Level and Sea Level Changes -- Sea Level Changes over the Past 100 Million Years -- Oxygen Isotope Record over the Past 67 Million Years -- Influence of Earth's Orbital Parameters on Glaciation -- Oxygen Isotope Record over the Past 1.8 Million Years -- Sea Level over the Past 150,000 Years -- Recent Temperature History -- Sea Level Response to Recent Temperature History -- The History of Co2 in the Atmosphere -- Questions -- 9 Mechanisms That Impart Change to Landscape -- Uplift and Subsidence -- Surface Uplift/Subsidence and Bedrock Uplift/Subsidence -- How Does Uplift/Subsidence Occur? -- Present-Day Uplift/Subsidence Rates. Measuring Ancient Uplift Rates and Elevation -- Erosion, Deposition, and Rivers -- Graded Rivers and Base Level -- Base Level Changes -- Knickpoint Migration -- Changes in Discharge and Sediment Supply -- The Lower Mississippi River Valley During the Most Recent Glacial Advance -- Present-Day Erosion Rates -- Controls on Rates of Erosion -- Rates of Deposition -- Exhumation -- Erosional Exhumation -- Calculating Rates of Erosional Exhumation -- Tectonic Exhumation -- Volcanism -- Questions -- 10 Evolution of Landscape -- Landscape Grows Old -- Landscape at Topographic Steady-State -- Steady-State as the End-Product of Growing Old -- Rejuvenation -- Reincarnation -- Reincarnation While Growing Old -- Reincarnation due to Volcanism and Tectonic Stress -- Reincarnation due to Glaciation -- Reincarnation due to Burial Beneath Unconsolidated Sediment -- Summary -- Questions -- II. Structural Provinces -- 11 Structural Provinces, Rock Successions, and Tectonic Provinces -- Structural Provinces -- Rock Successions -- The North American Crystalline Shield -- Precambrian Sedimentary/Volcanic Rocks -- The Interior Platform -- The Miogeocline -- Accreted Terranes -- The Atlantic Miogeocline -- Tectonic Provinces -- Hinterland Tectonic Provinces -- Foreland Tectonic Provinces -- The Reactivated Western Craton and the Atlantic Marginal Basin -- Distribution of Rock Successions and Tectonic Provinces -- The Great Unconformity -- Questions -- 12 Glacial Landscape -- Effect Of Glaciation On Landscape -- Landscape Development in Areas of Continental Glaciation -- Landscape Development in Areas of Alpine Glaciation -- A Daughter Of The Snows: Glacial Landscape In The United States -- The Glacial Erosion Boundary In The United States -- The Glacial Erosion Boundary Across North America -- Moraines -- Proglacial Lakes -- Lake Agassiz -- Marine Incursions. Drumlin Fields -- Kame-Kettle Fields -- Eskers -- Sand Dune Fields -- Loess Deposition -- Area South Of The Glacial Limit -- The Teays River -- The Missouri River -- Pluvial Lakes Of The Cordillera -- Questions -- 13 Sediment and Nearly Flat-Lying Sedimentary Layers -- Landscape in Nearly Flat-Lying Layers -- Bench-and-Slope Landscape -- Erosional Mountains -- Monoclinal Slopes and Hogback Ridges -- The Coastal Plain -- Barrier Islands -- New England -- New Jersey to North Carolina -- South Carolina to Florida -- The Mississippi Embayment -- Texas -- Ancient Shorelines of the Coastal Plain -- The Western Margin of Nearly Flat-Lying Sedimentary Layers -- The Great Plains -- The Missouri Plateau -- The High Plains -- The Nebraska Sand Hill Region and Ogallala Aquifer -- The Central High Plains -- The Llano Estacado -- The Colorado Piedmont, Pecos Valley, Plains Border, and Edwards Plateau -- The Wyoming Basin -- Uplift of the Wyoming Basin and Northern Great Plains -- The Colorado Plateau -- Incised Meanders -- Bench-and-Slope Landscape -- Mogollon Rim -- Uplifts and Monoclines -- Fractures and Impact Features -- Arches National Park -- Zion National Park -- Bryce Canyon National Park -- Meteor Impact Features -- Sedimentary-Cored Anticlinal and Domal Mountains -- Central Lowlands -- Ozark Plateau -- Salem and Springfield Plateaus -- Boston Mountains -- Uplift History -- The Interior Low Plateaus -- Bench-and-Slope Landscape -- Deformed Rocks of the Shawnee Hills -- Mammoth Cave -- The Appalachian Plateau -- Allegheny Plateau -- Cumberland Plateau -- Comparison of the Pottsville and Cumberland Escarpments -- Questions -- 14 Crystalline-Cored Mid-Continent Anticlines and Domes -- Adirondack Mountains -- St. Francois Mountains -- Wichita, Arbuckle, and Llano Structural Domes -- Wichita Mountains -- Arbuckle Mountains -- Llano Uplift. Landscape Development -- Western Margin of Crystalline-Cored Anticlines and Domes -- Intrusive Domal Mountains -- The Southern Rocky Mountains -- The Front Range -- Sawatch Mountains -- Rio Grande Rift in Central Colorado -- Landscape History of the Southern Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau -- Cause of Accelerated Erosion in the Southern Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau -- First There Is a Mountain -- Anticlinal Mountains of the Middle Rockies -- Wind River Range -- Beartooth Mountains -- Bighorn Mountains -- The Black Hills -- Water Gaps in the Rocky Mountains -- Superior Upland -- Geologic Overview -- Superior Province -- Penokean Province -- Iron Formations -- Sudbury Meteorite Impact Event -- Barron and Baraboo Quartzite -- Keweenawan Rift System -- Questions -- 15 Foreland Fold and Thrust Belts -- Structural Form of Foreland Thrust Faults -- Comparison With the Crystalline-Cored Anticlinal Structure -- Cordilleran Fold and Thrust Belt -- Northern Rocky Mountains -- Eastern Segment of the Northern Rocky Mountains -- Western Segment of the Northern Rocky Mountains -- The Rocky Mountain Trench -- The Idaho-Wyoming Fold and Thrust Belt -- Overview: Appalachian-Ouachita Fold and Thrust Belt -- Valley and Ridge Fold and Thrust Belt -- The Great Valley -- Northern Appalachian Fold and Thrust Belt -- Geology of the Southern Hudson River Valley -- Central Appalachian Fold and Thrust Belt -- Southern Appalachian (Tennessee) Fold and Thrust Belt -- The Western Thrust Belt -- The Central Thrust Belt -- Fault Zones on the Cumberland Plateau -- Distribution of Appalachian Foreland Deformation -- Ouachita Fold and Thrust Belt -- Arkansas River Valley-Northern Mountains -- The Fourche Mountains -- The Central Mountains -- Athens Plateau -- Marathon Basin Fold and Thrust Belt -- Water Gaps in the Valley and Ridge and Ouachita Mountains -- Questions. 16 Hinterland Deformation Belts. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910583337803321 |
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| San Diego : , : Elsevier, , 2018 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Homelands [[electronic resource] ] : a geography of culture and place across America / / edited by Richard L. Nostrand and Lawrence E. Estaville
| Homelands [[electronic resource] ] : a geography of culture and place across America / / edited by Richard L. Nostrand and Lawrence E. Estaville |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (346 p.) |
| Disciplina | 304.2/0973 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
NostrandRichard L <1939-> (Richard Lee)
EstavilleLawrence E (Lawrence Ernest) |
| Collana | Creating the North American landscape |
| Soggetto topico |
Human geography - United States
Regionalism - United States - History Place (Philosophy) Cultural pluralism - United States - History Ethnicity - United States - History Immigrants - United States - History Minorities - United States - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8018-7660-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""List of Maps, Figures, and Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction Free Land, Dry Land, Homeland""; ""Chapter One The New England Yankee Homeland""; ""Chapter Two The Pennsylvanian Homeland""; ""Chapter Three Old Order Amish Homelands""; ""Chapter Four Blacks in the Plantation South Unique Homelands""; ""Chapter Five The Creole Coast Homeland to Substrate""; ""Chapter Six Nouvelle Acadie The Cajun Homeland""
""Chapter Seven La Tierra Tejana A South Texas Homeland"" ""Chapter Eight The Anglo-Texan Homeland""; ""Chapter Nine The Kiowa Homeland in Oklahoma""; ""Chapter Ten The Highland-Hispano Homeland""; ""Chapter Eleven The Navajo Homeland""; ""Chapter Twelve Mormondoma's Deseret Homeland""; ""Chapter Thirteen California's Emerging Russian Homeland""; ""Chapter Fourteen Montana's Emerging Montane Homeland""; ""Chapter Fifteen American Homelands A Dissenting View""; ""References"" ""Contributors"" ""Index"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455010803321 |
| Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Homelands [[electronic resource] ] : a geography of culture and place across America / / edited by Richard L. Nostrand and Lawrence E. Estaville
| Homelands [[electronic resource] ] : a geography of culture and place across America / / edited by Richard L. Nostrand and Lawrence E. Estaville |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (346 p.) |
| Disciplina | 304.2/0973 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
NostrandRichard L <1939-> (Richard Lee)
EstavilleLawrence E (Lawrence Ernest) |
| Collana | Creating the North American landscape |
| Soggetto topico |
Human geography - United States
Regionalism - United States - History Place (Philosophy) Cultural pluralism - United States - History Ethnicity - United States - History Immigrants - United States - History Minorities - United States - History |
| ISBN | 0-8018-7660-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""List of Maps, Figures, and Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction Free Land, Dry Land, Homeland""; ""Chapter One The New England Yankee Homeland""; ""Chapter Two The Pennsylvanian Homeland""; ""Chapter Three Old Order Amish Homelands""; ""Chapter Four Blacks in the Plantation South Unique Homelands""; ""Chapter Five The Creole Coast Homeland to Substrate""; ""Chapter Six Nouvelle Acadie The Cajun Homeland""
""Chapter Seven La Tierra Tejana A South Texas Homeland"" ""Chapter Eight The Anglo-Texan Homeland""; ""Chapter Nine The Kiowa Homeland in Oklahoma""; ""Chapter Ten The Highland-Hispano Homeland""; ""Chapter Eleven The Navajo Homeland""; ""Chapter Twelve Mormondoma's Deseret Homeland""; ""Chapter Thirteen California's Emerging Russian Homeland""; ""Chapter Fourteen Montana's Emerging Montane Homeland""; ""Chapter Fifteen American Homelands A Dissenting View""; ""References"" ""Contributors"" ""Index"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780192903321 |
| Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Homelands : a geography of culture and place across America / / edited by Richard L. Nostrand and Lawrence E. Estaville
| Homelands : a geography of culture and place across America / / edited by Richard L. Nostrand and Lawrence E. Estaville |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (346 p.) |
| Disciplina | 304.2/0973 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
NostrandRichard L <1939-> (Richard Lee)
EstavilleLawrence E (Lawrence Ernest) |
| Collana | Creating the North American landscape |
| Soggetto topico |
Human geography - United States
Regionalism - United States - History Place (Philosophy) Cultural pluralism - United States - History Ethnicity - United States - History Immigrants - United States - History Minorities - United States - History |
| ISBN | 0-8018-7660-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""List of Maps, Figures, and Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction Free Land, Dry Land, Homeland""; ""Chapter One The New England Yankee Homeland""; ""Chapter Two The Pennsylvanian Homeland""; ""Chapter Three Old Order Amish Homelands""; ""Chapter Four Blacks in the Plantation South Unique Homelands""; ""Chapter Five The Creole Coast Homeland to Substrate""; ""Chapter Six Nouvelle Acadie The Cajun Homeland""
""Chapter Seven La Tierra Tejana A South Texas Homeland"" ""Chapter Eight The Anglo-Texan Homeland""; ""Chapter Nine The Kiowa Homeland in Oklahoma""; ""Chapter Ten The Highland-Hispano Homeland""; ""Chapter Eleven The Navajo Homeland""; ""Chapter Twelve Mormondoma's Deseret Homeland""; ""Chapter Thirteen California's Emerging Russian Homeland""; ""Chapter Fourteen Montana's Emerging Montane Homeland""; ""Chapter Fifteen American Homelands A Dissenting View""; ""References"" ""Contributors"" ""Index"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826690003321 |
| Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Multicultural geographies [[electronic resource] ] : the changing racial/ethnic patterns of the United States / / edited by John W. Frazier and Florence M. Margai
| Multicultural geographies [[electronic resource] ] : the changing racial/ethnic patterns of the United States / / edited by John W. Frazier and Florence M. Margai |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, NY, : State University of New York Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.800973 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
FrazierJohn W
MargaiFlorence M |
| Collana | A Global Academic Publishing book |
| Soggetto topico |
Cultural pluralism - United States
Human geography - United States Immigrants - United States - Social conditions Minorities - United States - Social conditions Multicultural education - United States Social change - United States |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-4384-3683-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Multiculturalism and multicultural education in the United States : the contributory role of geography / Florence M. Margai and John W. Frazier -- Culture, cultural landscapes, and the historical contexts for economic expansion, immigration, and group settlements in the United States / John W. Frazier and Florence M. Margai -- U.S. Black geographies -- Black American geographies : the historical and contemporary distributions of African Americans / Eugene Tettey-Fio -- The plight of African Americans in Michigan : residential segregation, and predictable outcomes in mortgage lending and educational achievement / Joe T. Darden -- Predatory lending and race : a case study of a Washington, D.C. lender / David H. Kaplan -- Low birth weight and the contribution of residential segregation, New York City, 2000 / Sue C. Grady -- U.S. Asian geographies -- Asians in America : some historical and contemporary patterns / John W. Frazier -- What color is segregation? : changing spatial segregation of Asians : 1980-2000 / David W. S. Wong -- From the ghetto to the invisiburb : shifting patterns of immigrant settlement in contemporary America / Emily Skop and Wei Li -- Refugee resettlement in Utica, New York : opportunities and issues for community development / Ellen Percy Kraly and Kristin VanValkenburg -- U.S. Latino geographies -- Changing Latino geographies in the United States / Mark E. Reisinger and Eugene Tettey-Fio -- Determinants of Latino migration to Allentown, PA / Mark E. Reisinger -- Latino landscapes and Latino-Black districts : a study of Allentown, PA / Eugene Tettey-Fio -- Diversity comes to a small city : the case of Binghamton, NY / Suzanna Klaf, Karima Legette, and John W. Frazier -- Methods of racial/ethnic data portrayal and analysis -- Reading and mapping America's changing ethnic geomorphologies and palimpsest geographies / Stanley D. Brunn -- The use of a 3-D mapping technique to portray racial and ethnic change / Lucius S. Willis -- A comparison of traditional and spatial measures of segregation : some empirical findings / David W.S. Wong -- Using geo-data techniques to analyze environmental health inequities in minority -- neighborhoods : the case of toxic exposures and low birth weights / Florence M. Margai -- Summation -- Summary and conclusions / Florence M. Margai and John W. Frazier. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464065603321 |
| Albany, NY, : State University of New York Press, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Multicultural geographies [[electronic resource] ] : the changing racial/ethnic patterns of the United States / / edited by John W. Frazier and Florence M. Margai
| Multicultural geographies [[electronic resource] ] : the changing racial/ethnic patterns of the United States / / edited by John W. Frazier and Florence M. Margai |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, NY, : State University of New York Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.800973 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
FrazierJohn W
MargaiFlorence M |
| Collana | A Global Academic Publishing book |
| Soggetto topico |
Cultural pluralism - United States
Human geography - United States Immigrants - United States - Social conditions Minorities - United States - Social conditions Multicultural education - United States Social change - United States |
| ISBN | 1-4384-3683-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Multiculturalism and multicultural education in the United States : the contributory role of geography / Florence M. Margai and John W. Frazier -- Culture, cultural landscapes, and the historical contexts for economic expansion, immigration, and group settlements in the United States / John W. Frazier and Florence M. Margai -- U.S. Black geographies -- Black American geographies : the historical and contemporary distributions of African Americans / Eugene Tettey-Fio -- The plight of African Americans in Michigan : residential segregation, and predictable outcomes in mortgage lending and educational achievement / Joe T. Darden -- Predatory lending and race : a case study of a Washington, D.C. lender / David H. Kaplan -- Low birth weight and the contribution of residential segregation, New York City, 2000 / Sue C. Grady -- U.S. Asian geographies -- Asians in America : some historical and contemporary patterns / John W. Frazier -- What color is segregation? : changing spatial segregation of Asians : 1980-2000 / David W. S. Wong -- From the ghetto to the invisiburb : shifting patterns of immigrant settlement in contemporary America / Emily Skop and Wei Li -- Refugee resettlement in Utica, New York : opportunities and issues for community development / Ellen Percy Kraly and Kristin VanValkenburg -- U.S. Latino geographies -- Changing Latino geographies in the United States / Mark E. Reisinger and Eugene Tettey-Fio -- Determinants of Latino migration to Allentown, PA / Mark E. Reisinger -- Latino landscapes and Latino-Black districts : a study of Allentown, PA / Eugene Tettey-Fio -- Diversity comes to a small city : the case of Binghamton, NY / Suzanna Klaf, Karima Legette, and John W. Frazier -- Methods of racial/ethnic data portrayal and analysis -- Reading and mapping America's changing ethnic geomorphologies and palimpsest geographies / Stanley D. Brunn -- The use of a 3-D mapping technique to portray racial and ethnic change / Lucius S. Willis -- A comparison of traditional and spatial measures of segregation : some empirical findings / David W.S. Wong -- Using geo-data techniques to analyze environmental health inequities in minority -- neighborhoods : the case of toxic exposures and low birth weights / Florence M. Margai -- Summation -- Summary and conclusions / Florence M. Margai and John W. Frazier. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788355803321 |
| Albany, NY, : State University of New York Press, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Multicultural geographies : the changing racial/ethnic patterns of the United States / / edited by John W. Frazier and Florence M. Margai
| Multicultural geographies : the changing racial/ethnic patterns of the United States / / edited by John W. Frazier and Florence M. Margai |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, NY, : State University of New York Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.800973 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
FrazierJohn W
MargaiFlorence M |
| Collana | A Global Academic Publishing book |
| Soggetto topico |
Cultural pluralism - United States
Human geography - United States Immigrants - United States - Social conditions Minorities - United States - Social conditions Multicultural education - United States Social change - United States |
| ISBN | 1-4384-3683-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Multiculturalism and multicultural education in the United States : the contributory role of geography / Florence M. Margai and John W. Frazier -- Culture, cultural landscapes, and the historical contexts for economic expansion, immigration, and group settlements in the United States / John W. Frazier and Florence M. Margai -- U.S. Black geographies -- Black American geographies : the historical and contemporary distributions of African Americans / Eugene Tettey-Fio -- The plight of African Americans in Michigan : residential segregation, and predictable outcomes in mortgage lending and educational achievement / Joe T. Darden -- Predatory lending and race : a case study of a Washington, D.C. lender / David H. Kaplan -- Low birth weight and the contribution of residential segregation, New York City, 2000 / Sue C. Grady -- U.S. Asian geographies -- Asians in America : some historical and contemporary patterns / John W. Frazier -- What color is segregation? : changing spatial segregation of Asians : 1980-2000 / David W. S. Wong -- From the ghetto to the invisiburb : shifting patterns of immigrant settlement in contemporary America / Emily Skop and Wei Li -- Refugee resettlement in Utica, New York : opportunities and issues for community development / Ellen Percy Kraly and Kristin VanValkenburg -- U.S. Latino geographies -- Changing Latino geographies in the United States / Mark E. Reisinger and Eugene Tettey-Fio -- Determinants of Latino migration to Allentown, PA / Mark E. Reisinger -- Latino landscapes and Latino-Black districts : a study of Allentown, PA / Eugene Tettey-Fio -- Diversity comes to a small city : the case of Binghamton, NY / Suzanna Klaf, Karima Legette, and John W. Frazier -- Methods of racial/ethnic data portrayal and analysis -- Reading and mapping America's changing ethnic geomorphologies and palimpsest geographies / Stanley D. Brunn -- The use of a 3-D mapping technique to portray racial and ethnic change / Lucius S. Willis -- A comparison of traditional and spatial measures of segregation : some empirical findings / David W.S. Wong -- Using geo-data techniques to analyze environmental health inequities in minority -- neighborhoods : the case of toxic exposures and low birth weights / Florence M. Margai -- Summation -- Summary and conclusions / Florence M. Margai and John W. Frazier. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825955603321 |
| Albany, NY, : State University of New York Press, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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