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A reader in cultural geography

Table of Contents

• Preface and Acknowledgments
• I. The World of Cultural Geography
  • 1. Foreword: Culture and Geography: Thirty Years of Advance (Philip L. Wagner)
  • 2. Re-reading Cultural Geography (Peter J. Hugill & Kenneth E. Foote)
• II. How the World Looks
  • 3. Introduction (Nathan M. Smith & Kenneth E. Foote)
  • 4. The Mexican American Cu(ltural Capital (Daniel D. Arreola)
  • 5. The Symbolism of the Skyscraper: Case Studies of New York's First Tall Buildings (Mona Domosh)
  • 6. The Westward-moving House: Three American Houses and the People Who Lived in Them (J. B. Jackson)
  • 7. Common Houses, Cultural Spoor (Peirce Lewis)
  • 8. American Wests: Preface to a Geographical Interpretation (Donald W. Meinig)
  • 9. Speculations on the New American Landscapes (Robert B. Riley)
  • 1O. Looking at a World That Speaks (Miles Richardson)
• III. How the World Works
  • 11. Introduction (Kent Mathewson)
  • 12. Diffusionism: A Uniformitarian Critique (James M. Blaut)
  • 13. Ecological Imperialism: The Overseas Migration of Western Europeans as a Biological Phenomenon (Alfred W. Crosby)
  • 14. A Staple Interpretation of Slavery and Free Labor (Carville Earle)
  • 15. Cultural Preadaptation and the American Forest Frontier: The Role of New Sweden (Terry G. Jordan)
  • 16. Ecological Change, Inflation, and Migration in the Far Western Caribbean (Bernard Nietschmann)
  • 17. Wetland Production and Smallholder Persistence: Agricultural Change in a Highland Peruvian Region (Karl S. Zimmerer)
  • 18. Cultural Geography at Work (James J. Parsons)
• IV. What the World Means
  • 19. Introduction (Kenneth E. Foote)
  • 20. Filming the Fens: A Visual Interpretation of Regional Character (Jacquelin Burgess)
  • 21. Environmental Theology: Trends in Christian Thought (Robin W. Doughty)
  • 22. Aesthetic Ideology and Urban Design (Barbara Rubin Hudson)
  • 23. Imagining the Future at Niagara Falls (Patrick McGreevy)
  • 24. Place and the Novelist (Douglas C. D. Pocock)
  • 25. Way-Keeping, Way-Finding, Way-Losing: Disorientation in a Complex Environment (Joseph Sonnenfeld)
  • 26. Worlds of Meaning: Cultural Geography and the Imagination (Denis E. Cosgrove)
• V. Future Worlds of Cultural Geography
  • 27. Introduction (Kenneth E. Foote)
  • 28. After the Civil War: Reconstructing Cultural Geography as Heterotopia (James S. Duncan)
  • 29. Toward a Cultural Curriculum for the Future: A First Approximation (Karl W. Butzer)
  • 30. Cultural Geography as Discovery (Christopher L. Salter)
  • 31. Afterword: New Interests, Unsolved Problems, and Persisting Tasks (Marvin W. Mikesell)
• References
• Editors and Contributors
• Index

About the Author

Kenneth E. Foote is Professor and Chair of Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he directs the Center for Geographic Education.