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 Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.
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- Summary
- "As a boy, Robert Kaplan recalls his father driving trucks across the country to earn a living for his family, a man who witnessed and understood America from a ground-level perspective. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation and understanding of American geography that is often lost in the jet age. Along the way, he witnesses both prosperity and decline--increasingly cosmopolitan cities that benefit from globalization, impoverished small towns abandoned by the same--and paints a bracingly clear portrait of America today, including the anger and alienation that is currently giving rise to Trump and Sanders candidacies. 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
- 1 online resource
- 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
- 9780399588235
- 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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- Diplomatic relations -- Philosophy
- Electronic books
- Geography
- HISTORY / United States / General
- History
- Imperialism
- Imperialism -- History
- Kaplan, Robert D, 1952-
- Kaplan, Robert D, 1952- -- Travel -- United States
- Landscapes -- Social aspects
- Landscapes -- Social aspects -- United States
- National characteristics, American
- National characteristics, American
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- City and town life
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
- Since 1980
- Social conditions
- TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues
- Territorial expansion
- Travel
- United States
- United States -- Description and travel
- United States -- Foreign relations | Philosophy
- United States -- Geography
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020
- United States -- Territorial expansion
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
- City and town life -- United States
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "As a boy, Robert Kaplan recalls his father driving trucks across the country to earn a living for his family, a man who witnessed and understood America from a ground-level perspective. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation and understanding of American geography that is often lost in the jet age. Along the way, he witnesses both prosperity and decline--increasingly cosmopolitan cities that benefit from globalization, impoverished small towns abandoned by the same--and paints a bracingly clear portrait of America today, including the anger and alienation that is currently giving rise to Trump and Sanders candidacies. 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
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1952-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kaplan, Robert D.
- Dewey number
- 306.097309/048
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E161.3
- LC item number
- .K37 2017eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Kaplan, Robert D
- Kaplan, Robert D
- Landscapes
- City and town life
- Imperialism
- National characteristics, American
- City and town life
- Diplomatic relations
- Geography
- Imperialism
- Landscapes
- National characteristics, American
- Social conditions
- Territorial expansion
- Travel
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics
- TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues
- HISTORY / United States / General
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
- United States
- United States
- United States
- United States
- United States
- United States
- Label
- Earning the Rockies : how geography shapes America's role in the world, Robert D. Kaplan
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- 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
- ocn970026480
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780399588235
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 3DC23E6F-044D-43C2-AF15-12DE1C660B69
- Label
- Earning the Rockies : how geography shapes America's role in the world, Robert D. Kaplan
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- 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
- ocn970026480
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780399588235
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 3DC23E6F-044D-43C2-AF15-12DE1C660B69
Subject
- Diplomatic relations -- Philosophy
- Electronic books
- Geography
- HISTORY / United States / General
- History
- Imperialism
- Imperialism -- History
- Kaplan, Robert D, 1952-
- Kaplan, Robert D, 1952- -- Travel -- United States
- Landscapes -- Social aspects
- Landscapes -- Social aspects -- United States
- National characteristics, American
- National characteristics, American
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- City and town life
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
- Since 1980
- Social conditions
- TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues
- Territorial expansion
- Travel
- United States
- United States -- Description and travel
- United States -- Foreign relations | Philosophy
- United States -- Geography
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020
- United States -- Territorial expansion
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
- City and town life -- United States
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