Title & Author:

Re-reading cultural geography / edited by Kenneth E. Foote [and others].

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 1994.

Description:

viii, 494 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-479) and index.
The Mexican American cultural capital / Daniel D. Arreola -- The symbolism of the skyscraper / Mona Domosh -- The westward-moving house / J.B. Jackson -- Common houses, cultural spoor / Peirce Lewis -- American wests / Donald W. Meinig -- Speculations on the new American landscapes / Robert B. Riley -- Looking at a world that speaks / Miles Richardson -- Kent Mathewson -- Diffusionism / James M. Blaut -- Ecological imperialism / Alfred W. Crosby
A staple interpretation of slavery and free labor / Carville Earle -- Cultural preadaptation and the American forest frontier / Terry G. Jordan -- Ecological change, inflation, and migration in the far western Caribbean / Bernard Nietschmann -- Wetland production and smallholder persistence / Karl S. Zimmerer -- Cultural geography at work / James J. Parsons -- Filming the fens / Jacquelin Burgess -- Environmental theology / Robin W. Doughty -- Aesthetic ideology and urban design / Barbara Rubin Hudson -- Imagining the future at Niagra Falls / Patrick McGreevy -- Place and the novelist / Douglas C.D. Pocock -- Way-keeping, way-finding, way-losing / Joseph Sonnenfeld -- Worlds of meaning / Denis E. Cosgrove -- After the Civil war / James S. Duncan -- Toward a cultural curriculum for the future / Karl W. Butzer -- Cultural geography as discovery / Christopher L. Salter.

Summary:

"The geography of culture has held a sustained attraction for some of the most distinguished and promising geographers of this century. These notable voices have now been brought together to explore the cultural landscape in this fresh, encompassing survey of one of geography's most vital research areas"-- Publisher description.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0292724837 (alk. paper)
9780292724839 (alk. paper)
0292724845 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780292724846 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Human geography.
Cultural geography.
Géographie culturelle.
Anthropogeografie
Aufsatzsammlung
Culturele geografie.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Foote, Kenneth E., 1955- editor.
Foote, Kenneth E., 1955-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 108223
Call No.: ID GF43.R4; ID:94-B2955
Status: Available