2nd Edition

The Making of the American Landscape

Edited By Michael P. Conzen Copyright 2010
    568 Pages 165 Color & 45 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    568 Pages 165 Color & 45 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    568 Pages 165 Color & 45 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    The only compact yet comprehensive survey of environmental and cultural forces that have shaped the visual character and geographical diversity of the settled American landscape. The book examines the large-scale historical influences that have molded the varied human adaptation of the continent’s physical topography to its needs over more than 500 years. It presents a synoptic view of myriad historical processes working together or in conflict, and illustrates them through their survival in or disappearance from the everyday landscapes of today.

    The Making of the American Landscape (ed. by Michael P. Conzen) — 2nd Edition — TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Chap. 1 Nature’s bequest
    Stanley W. Trimble, University of California at Los Angeles

    Chap. 2 Indian settlement landscapes
    Karl W. Butzer, University of Texas at AustinChap. 3 Hispanic landscape traditions
    David Hornbeck, California State University at Northridge

    Chap. 4 The French imprint on North America
    Cole Harris, University of British ColumbiaChap.

    Chap. 5 Americanizing English landscape habits
    Peirce F. Lewis, The Pennsylvania State UniversityChap. 6 The plantation regime
    Charles S. Aiken, University of TennesseeChap. 7 Gridding a national landscape
    Hildegard B. Johnson, Macalester College

    Chap. 8 Clearing the forests
    Michael Williams, University of Oxford

    Chap. 9 Remaking the prairies
    John C. Hudson, Northwestern University

    Chap. 10 Watering the deserts
    James L. Wescoat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Chap. 11 Designing American utopias
    Bret Wallach, University of OklahomaChap. 12 Inscribing ethnicity on the land
    Susan W. Hardwick, University of Oregon

    Chap. 13 Organizing religious landscapes
    Wilbur Zelinsky, The Pennsylvania State UniversityChap. 14 Mechanizing the American earth
    David R. Meyer, Brown University

    Chap. 15 Building American cityscapes
    Edward K. Muller, University of Pittsburgh

    Chap. 16 Asserting central authority
    Wilbur Zelinsky, The Pennsylvania State UniversityChap. 17 Creating landscapes of civil society
    Joseph S. Wood, University of Southern Maine

    Chap. 18 Imposing landscapes of private power and wealth
    William K. Wyckoff, Montana State University

    Chap. 19 Paving America for the automobile
    John A. Jakle, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Chap. 20 Developing corporate consumption venues
    Michael P. Conzen, The University of Chicago

    Biography

    Michael Conzen is Professor of Geography at the University of Chicago

    'Michael Conzen has re-assembled a superb line up of authors renowned for their capacity to see detail and interpret the big picture. Chapters have been updated, especially through an expanded array of historical and contemporary views of landscapes, and several new authors make this an even more compelling text." – Deryck Holdsworth, Pennsylvania State University

    "Since its publication in 1990, The Making of the American Landscape has remained the best single-volume introduction to the country's cultural landscape mosaic." –Chris Wilson, University of New Mexico, USA

    "The Making of the American Landscape is, simply stated, an amazing book. It should be required reading for anyone interested in the evolution of landscape. It is also a fine text to be used in classes which focus on historical geography or landscape studies more broadly....There is not a single chapter that this reviewer found disappointing or uninteresting." – Dawn S. Bowen, Department of Geography, University of Mary Washington