The American Way A Geographical History of Crisis and Recovery

by Earle, Carville

• ISBN13: 9780847687138
• ISBN10: 0847687139
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-11
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

The geography of contemporary U.S. political economy has roots that run deep into our past. Earle traces their growth to the seventeenth-century origins of liberalism, republicanism, and financial crises.

Author Biography

Carville Earle is Carl O. Sauer Professor of Geography at Louisiana State University

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Tables	xiii
Acknowledgments	xvii
Introduction	1	(14)
PART ONE: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
1 Space, Time, and the American Way	15	(12)
2 The Periodic Structuring of the American Past	27	(12)
3 The Dynamics of Policy Regimes: Liberalism, Republicanism, and Their Variants	39	(16)
4 Policy Regimes and Geographical Reconstructions	55	(30)
5 Regulatory Regimes and the Geographies of Producer and Consumer Revolutions	85	(28)
6 Spatial Enlargements in American Power: Sectional, National, and Transnational States	113	(96)
PART TWO: COLONIAL FOUNDATIONS
7 Backing into Empire	209	(20)
8 "We are all English. That is one good fact.": Cromwell's Model Republican Geographies, 1630's-1680's	229	(24)
9 Lockean Geographies: Liberalism and Its Geographical Consequences, 1680's-1730's	253	(40)
10 Imperial Geographies: The Republican Restoration, 1740's-1780's	293	(42)
PART THREE: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIES
11 Out with the Old, in with the New: The Reconstitution of the American States and Its Geographical Parameters	335	(12)
12 Space/Time: Four Spatial Variables across Two Centuries and Five Policy Regimes: The National Era, 1780's-2000	347	(62)
References	409	(26)
Index	435	(14)
About the Author	449