The Resource Earning the Rockies : how geography shapes America's role in the world, Robert D. Kaplan
Earning the Rockies : how geography shapes America's role in the world, Robert D. Kaplan
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The item Earning the Rockies : how geography shapes America's role in the world, Robert D. Kaplan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Jacksonville Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 5 library branches.
- Summary
- "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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 201 pages
- Contents
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- Invocation
- Earning the Rockies
- A Continental Empire
- Notes on a Vertical Landscape
- Notes on a Horizontal Landscape
- Cathay
- Epilogue
- Isbn
- 9780399588211
- Label
- Earning the Rockies : how geography shapes America's role in the world
- Title
- Earning the Rockies
- Title remainder
- how geography shapes America's role in the world
- Statement of responsibility
- Robert D. Kaplan
- Subject
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- Imperialism -- History
- Kaplan, Robert D, 1952- -- Travel -- United States
- Landscapes -- Social aspects -- United States
- National characteristics, American
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics
- City and town life -- United States
- United States -- Description and travel
- United States -- Foreign relations | Philosophy
- United States -- Geography
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
- United States -- Territorial expansion
- TRAVEL / United States
- HISTORY / United States
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1952-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kaplan, Robert D.
- Dewey number
- 306.097309/048
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E161.3
- LC item number
- .K37 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- United States
- United States
- Kaplan, Robert D
- Landscapes
- City and town life
- United States
- United States
- Imperialism
- National characteristics, American
- United States
- HISTORY / United States
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics
- TRAVEL / United States
- Label
- Earning the Rockies : how geography shapes America's role in the world, Robert D. Kaplan
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-183) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Invocation -- Earning the Rockies -- A Continental Empire -- Notes on a Vertical Landscape -- Notes on a Horizontal Landscape -- Cathay -- Epilogue
- Control code
- ocn947954032
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 201 pages
- Isbn
- 9780399588211
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2016013488
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
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- 1235570
- (Sirsi) o947954032
- (OCoLC)947954032
- Label
- Earning the Rockies : how geography shapes America's role in the world, Robert D. Kaplan
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-183) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Invocation -- Earning the Rockies -- A Continental Empire -- Notes on a Vertical Landscape -- Notes on a Horizontal Landscape -- Cathay -- Epilogue
- Control code
- ocn947954032
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 201 pages
- Isbn
- 9780399588211
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2016013488
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- System control number
-
- 1235570
- (Sirsi) o947954032
- (OCoLC)947954032
Subject
- Imperialism -- History
- Kaplan, Robert D, 1952- -- Travel -- United States
- Landscapes -- Social aspects -- United States
- National characteristics, American
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics
- City and town life -- United States
- United States -- Description and travel
- United States -- Foreign relations | Philosophy
- United States -- Geography
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
- United States -- Territorial expansion
- TRAVEL / United States
- HISTORY / United States
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