02560cam a2200469 i 4500 128462 20230404125748.0 160412s2017 nyuab b 001 0deng 19053402 2016013488 9780399588211 (alk. paper) 9780399588235 (ebook) DLC eng rda DLC DLC Eng pcc n-us--- 002 E 161.3 K17e 2017 306.097309/048 Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- Earning the Rockies : how geography shapes America's role in the world / Robert D. Kaplan. First edition. New York : Random House, [2017] 201 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm "As a boy, Robert Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father tell evocative stories about traveling across America in his youth, travels in which he learned to understand the country literally from the ground up. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation of American geography often lost in the jet age. Along the way, he witnesses both prosperity and decline--increasingly cosmopolitan cities that thrive on globalization, impoverished towns denuded by the loss of manufacturing--and paints a bracingly clear picture of America today. Kaplan lays bare the roots of American greatness--the fact that we are a nation, empire, and continent all at once--and how westward expansion shaped our national character, and should shape our foreign policy"--Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-183) and index. Invocation -- Earning the Rockies -- A Continental Empire -- Notes on a Vertical Landscape -- Notes on a Horizontal Landscape -- Cathay -- Epilogue. United States Geography. United States Description and travel. Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- Travel United States. Landscapes Social aspects United States. City and town life United States. United States Social conditions 1980- United States Territorial expansion. Imperialism History. National characteristics, American. United States Foreign relations Philosophy. Estados Unidos Geografía. Estados Unidos Descripciones y viajes. Purchase 20170605 335307 Amazon lcc bk dvf 4146 4146 0 0 lcc 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2023-04-04 1 0 002 E 161.3 K17e 2017 00000121897 2018-10-23 00:00:00 1 2018-10-23 bk