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Earning the Rockies : how geography shapes America's role in the world, Robert D. Kaplan

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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
Work
Publication
Edition
First edition.
Extent
201 pages
Contents
  • Invocation
  • Earning the Rockies
  • A Continental Empire
  • Notes on a Vertical Landscape
  • Notes on a Horizontal Landscape
  • Cathay
  • Epilogue
Isbn
9780399588211
Instance
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
Creator
Author
Subject
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
  • 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
  • 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
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Publication
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
Label
Earning the Rockies : how geography shapes America's role in the world, Robert D. Kaplan
Publication
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

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