Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-183) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Earning the Rockies

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

947954032

Responsibility statement

Robert D. Kaplan

Sub title

how geography shapes America's role in the world

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

Table Of Contents

Invocation -- Earning the Rockies -- A Continental Empire -- Notes on a Vertical Landscape -- Notes on a Horizontal Landscape -- Cathay -- Epilogue

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