Homelands
Subtitle: A Geography of Culture and Place across America (Creating the North American Landscape)
Contributors: Richard L. Nostrand (Editor); Lawrence E. Estaville (Editor)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: January 4, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780801867002
Subjects: American history; Cultural studies; Human Geography; Human ecology; Social groups & communities; United States - General; Place (Philosophy); United States History (General); History; United States; Sociology; USA; Regionalism; Sociology - Social Theory; Architecture / Landscape; Description and travel; Civilization; Geography
First sentence: Late in the evening of 12 July 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner read his seminal essay "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (Turner 1920, 1 - 38).