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Americans and Their Land: The House Built on Abundance
Anne Mackin
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Description for Americans and Their Land: The House Built on Abundance
Hardcover. Takes the reader story by story from frontier history and shows how land shaped the American political landscape. This work shows how our evolving traditions of apportioning resources have allowed diminished supplies to create an unequal society. Num Pages: 280 pages, 5 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
Thomas Malthus once said, ""The happiness of the Americans depended much less upon their peculiar degree of civilization than...upon their having a great plenty of fertile uncultivated land."" Malthus knew. Lord MacCaulay knew. Albert Gallatin knew. America and her people would change as a growing population whittled away her land supply. Nothing has shaped the American character like the abundance of land that met the colonist, the pioneer, or the early suburbanite. With today's political and economic institutions shaped by the largesse of yesteryear, how will Americans fare in the new landscape of water wars, expensive housing, rising fuel prices, ... Read more
Thomas Malthus once said, ""The happiness of the Americans depended much less upon their peculiar degree of civilization than...upon their having a great plenty of fertile uncultivated land."" Malthus knew. Lord MacCaulay knew. Albert Gallatin knew. America and her people would change as a growing population whittled away her land supply. Nothing has shaped the American character like the abundance of land that met the colonist, the pioneer, or the early suburbanite. With today's political and economic institutions shaped by the largesse of yesteryear, how will Americans fare in the new landscape of water wars, expensive housing, rising fuel prices, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472115563
SKU
V9780472115563
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Ref
99-15
About Anne Mackin
Anne Mackin has previously been a planner for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management, and a longtime writer on topics related to planning and history. Her work includes A Design Primer for Cities and Towns and a series of fifty vignettes portraying Boston history for Mapping Boston.
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