Common Landscape of America, 1580-1845

By John R. Stilgoe

Book Overview

"A first-rate introduction to a still largely extant North America away from the great cities. This 400-page documentary by a dedicated exploring scholar explains how and why the landscape changed... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300030460
• ISBN13: 9780300030464
• Release Date: September 1983
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Scholarly History of the American Landscape

This groundbreaking 1982 work by Harvard landscape scholar John Stilgoe remains a standard text for cultural geographers, landscape historians and others interested in historic patterns of development throughout this country. It still has not been equalled in its depth or scope. Stilgoe weaves together an astounding amount of historical detail in a scholarly yet readable style that offers insight after insight into how various regional and European cultural forces have shaped the American landscape.