Place and belonging in America
By: David Jacobson
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Human geography -- United States; Ethnology -- United States; Values -- United States; Pluralism (Social sciences) -- United States -- History
Description: "How did the American people come to develop a moral association with this land, such that their very experience of nationhood was rooted in, and their republican virtues depended upon, that land? And what is happening now as the exclusivity of that moral linkage between people and land becomes ever more attenuated? In Place and Belonging in America, David Jacobson addresses the evolving relationship between geography and citizenship in the United States since the nation's origins."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-226) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction : terra firma; title: An American Eden; title: Surveying the landscape : place and identity in the early republic; title: Nature's nation : preserving the future; title: Spatial rhythms : changing the past; title: Intangible property : a multihued landscape; title: The labyrinth of the soul