Author: Wayne FranklinPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 9781587290749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Mapping American Culture
Author: Wayne FranklinPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 9781587290749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Collected Works of Richard J. Chorley
Author: Richard J. ChorleyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000398048
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 2491
Book Description
Richard John Chorley was known as a leading figure in quantitative geography in the late 20th Century and played an instrumental role in bringing the use of systems theory to geography. This set of 7 reissued works either edited by or written by Chorley offers a great wealth of scholarship on geography and geomorphology.
Landforms of Iowa
Author: Jean Cutler PriorPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 9781587291951
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Atlas of Iowa
Author: Robert C ShepardPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 160938959X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Atlas of Iowa examines the state's geography, demographics, agriculture, and political/cultural patterns. Drawing upon archival materials and synthesizing little-known secondary sources, the authors of this thematic atlas have pulled together a comprehensive map series that depicts Iowa's complex, unique story of challenging human-environmental interaction.
Ecospatiality
Author: Lowell WysePublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609387740
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
"John Steinbeck's Salinas Valley. Richard Wright's Chicago. Leslie Marmon Silko's New Mexico. Readers often have strong connections with literary places like these. And some works of literature can even change our understanding of the world we live in. But can place also change our view of literature? Site-Reading advances a place-based approach to literature, reading classic texts through the twin lenses of geographical awareness and environmental thought. This book highlights recent developments in ecocriticism and geocriticism to argue for a theory of "ecospatiality" with nature, space, and story as the three elements of place. Site-Reading reconsiders well-known works of twentieth-century American prose and shows how social and environmental issues always overlap. Travel writer William Least Heat-Moon, whose work embodies the ecospatial perspective, portrays his experiences with place on the local, regional, and continental scales. Classic novels by Silko, Willa Cather, and Ana Castillo-usually discussed in isolation-converge in a way that maps diverse cultural perspectives and environmental threats onto the shared geography of Central New Mexico. A reading of Steinbeck's Salinas Valley Watershed texts investigates the impacts of literary tourism in "Steinbeck Country" before drilling down into Steinbeck's portrayals of spatial development and environmental history. And an innovative analysis of Native Son shows how Richard Wright uses cartographic details to decry the spatial/racial politics of South Side Chicago in the 1930s. In this book, Lowell Wyse shows how place provides the grounds for both human experience and critical practice. By bringing together concepts like literary cartography, deep mapping, and bioregionalism in an "ecospatial" approach, Site-Reading not only maps new terrain between ecocriticism and geocriticism, but also shows why place matters-in the world and in the text"--
WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY. (PRODUCT ID 23958336).
Author: CAITLIN. FINLAYSONNational Geographic the North Central States
Author: Publisher: National Geographic Society
ISBN: 9781572624191
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Each of these attractive double-sided travel guides highlights the distinctive character of a different US region. With all the tools needed to design better vacations, they describe places to see along the route, side trips to nearby attractions, fairs, festivals, sports events and more. These great travel planners are printed on durable, plastic-coated paper and are presented in attractive 5 3/4" x 9 1/4" cardboard map packs.
Geography Generalized, Or, An Introduction to the Study of Geography on the Principles of Classification and Comparison, with Maps and Illustrations, and Introductions to Astronomy, History and Geology
Author: Robert SullivanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Lincoln Highway
Author: Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 9781587291135
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"With his lively pen and lyric camera, Mr. Hokanson takes us on a journey of discovery. The open road is, in part, a defining characteristic of this country, and the Lincoln Highway is one of the historic traces ... like the Oregon Trail, the Camino Real, or the National Road. Not just for tourists, the Lincoln Highway accelerated the processes of social mobility, changed our geography, and led inexorably to a new America. This is an important story, well researched and beautifully, perceptively told." -- William L. Withuhn, Curator of Transportation, Smithsonian Institution Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
The Geography of the Imagination
Author: Guy DavenportPublisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781567920802
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
In the 40 essays that constitute this collection, Guy Davenport, one of America's major literary critics, elucidates a range of literary history, encompassing literature, art, philosophy and music, from the ancients to the grand old men of modernism.