Earning the Rockies : How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
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| Autore: |
Kaplan Robert D.
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| Titolo: |
Earning the Rockies : How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
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| Pubblicazione: | HighBridge Audio |
| Disciplina: | 306.0973 |
| Persona (resp. second.): | DufrisWilliam |
| 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: | Musica  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910163273503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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