e-branch	Login My List - 0 Help
	Home   My Account/Renew Loans   Community Info   KidSearch   New Catalogue!

Search Advanced By Format By Number My Searches Can't Find it? Find Magazine Articles & more Problems?

Search:  Title Starts with...Title Keyword(s)Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)Subject Starts with...Subject Keyword(s)Series Starts with...Series Keyword(s)Anyword/AnywhereList Name Keyword(s)       Refine Search     > You're searching: Halifax Public Libraries

Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Kaplan, Robert D., 1952-     Subjects     Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- -- Travel -- United States.     Landscapes -- Social aspects -- United States.     Imperialism -- History.     National characteristics, American.     City and town life -- United States.     United States -- Foreign relations -- Philosophy.     United States -- Geography.     United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-     United States -- Territorial expansion.     United States -- Description and travel.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kaplan, Robert D., 1952-       by title:      Earning the Rockies ...       by call number:      306.0973 K17e     Search the Web     Kaplan, Robert D., 1952-     Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- -- Travel -- United States.     Landscapes -- Social aspects -- United States.     Imperialism -- History.     National characteristics, American.     City and town life -- United States.     United States -- Foreign relations -- Philosophy.     United States -- Geography.     United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-     United States -- Territorial expansion.     United States -- Description and travel.       MARC Display

Earning the Rockies : how geography shapes America's role in the world / Robert D. Kaplan. by Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- Random House, c2017. Call #: 306.0973 K17e Subjects Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- -- Travel -- United States.   Landscapes -- Social aspects -- United States.   Imperialism -- History.   National characteristics, American.   City and town life -- United States.   United States -- Foreign relations -- Philosophy.   United States -- Geography.   United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-   United States -- Territorial expansion.   United States -- Description and travel. ISBN:  9780399588211 (hc) 0399588213 (hc) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  xv, 201 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-189) and index. Contents:  Invocation -- Earning the Rockies -- A continental empire -- Notes on a vertical landscape -- Notes on a horizontal landscape -- Cathay -- Epilogue. Summary:  "As a boy, Robert Kaplan recalls his father driving trucks across the country to earn a living for his family, a man who witnessed and understood America from a ground-level perspective. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation and understanding of American geography that is often lost in the jet age. Along the way, he witnesses both prosperity and decline--increasingly cosmopolitan cities that benefit from globalization, impoverished small towns abandoned by the same--and paints a bracingly clear portrait of America today, including the anger and alienation that is currently giving rise to Trump and Sanders candidacies. 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"--From publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Musquodoboit Harbour Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.0973 K17e Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.