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Geography, History, and the American Political Economy
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2009
Summary
This collection takes on the call issued by reviewers of The American Way for a critical application of Carville Earle's framework to more geographical examples of political and economic shifts in America's past. The essays illustrate changes in U.S. settlement, development, and political structure through the lens of the restructuring of the American economy and society over approximately fifty year cycles of crisis and recovery. They demonstrate the extension of American's sphere of influence outside of the United States as a larger scalar shift, and they underscore the utility of geography in answering very local questions concerning questions of poorly documented settlement histories. Focusing on the geographic responses to periodic cycles of crisis and recovery and the more general underlying intertwining of geography and history, Geography, History, and the American Political Economy is an incisive demonstration of how the constant restructuring of American politics and economy occurs within spatial and historical constructs.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2816-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4098-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
240
Product type
Edited Book
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Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 01. Introduction: Approaching America’s Geographical History No access Pages 1 - 6
Chapter 02. Earle’s Theory and Conception of the Geographical History of the United States No access Pages 7 - 18
Chapter 03. The French in the Illinois Country, 1699–1735: Using Historical Geography to Understand European-Indian History No access Pages 19 - 42
Chapter 04. Economic Diversity, Industrialization, and Urbanization in Early-Nineteenth-Century Connecticut No access Pages 43 - 64
Chapter 05. The Structural Transformation of the Antebellum Red River Valley Settlement Systems in Louisiana No access Pages 65 - 98
Chapter 06. Earle’s Dialectical Policy Regimes and the Erie Canal No access Pages 99 - 124
Chapter 07. The Interplay of Manufacturing Employmen tand Population Concentrations in the United States, 1840–1990 No access Pages 125 - 164
Chapter 08. Regional Income Convergence and a Decennial Core-Periphery Regionalization of the United States 1929–2000 No access Pages 165 - 182
Chapter 09. Pre-Industrial, Industrial, and Post-Industrial Electoral Alignments in Ohio No access Pages 183 - 200
Chapter 10. Globalization Bites Back: A New Type of Crisis for the “American Way”? No access Pages 201 - 224
Chapter 11. Conclusion: The Rhythms of America’s Geographical Past No access Pages 225 - 232
