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Tables of Contents for Cultural Encounters With the Environment
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Figures and Tables
ix
Preface
xi
Introduction: Encounters with Environment and Place
1
16
Alexander B. Murphy
Douglas L. Johnson
PART I. CONSTRUCTING CULTURAL SPACES
Domestic Architecture in Early Colonial Mexico: Material Culture as (Sub)Text
17
22
Karl W. Butzer
Elisabeth K. Butzer
The Clash of Utopias: Sisterdale and the Six-Sided Struggle for the Texas Hill Country
39
20
Michael P. Conzen
The Struggle for Urban Public Space: Disposing of the Toronto Waterfront in the Nineteenth Century
59
20
Peter G. Goheen
Place Your Bets: Rates of Frontier Expansion in American History, 1650--1890
79
30
Carville Earle
PART II. REMAKING THE ENVIRONMENT
Wittfogel East and West: Changing Perspectives on Water Development in South Asia and the United States, 1670--2000
109
24
James L. Wescoat Jr.
Wetlands as Conserved Landscapes in the United States
133
24
James A. Schmid
Navigability of American Waters: Resolving Conflict through Applied Historical Geography
157
20
John A. Kirchner
Environmental History: From the Conquest to the Rescue of Nature
177
26
David Lowenthal
PART III. CLAIMING PLACES
Place Metaphor and Milieu in Hemingway's Fiction
203
16
Anne Buttimer
Cultural and Medical Geography: Evolution, Convergence, and Innovation
219
20
Charles M. Good
Language and Identity in Russia's National Homelands: Urban-Rural Contrasts
239
22
Chauncy D. Harris
Sharing Sacred Space in the Holy Land
261
22
Chad F. Emmett
An Absence of Place: Expectation and Realization in the West Bank
283
22
Shaul E. Cohen
Conclusion: Contemplating Enduring Themes and Future Trajectories
305
6
Alexander B. Murphy
Douglas L. Johnson
Epilogue: Each Particular Place: Culture and Geography
311
12
Philip L. Wagner
Index
323
12
About the Contributors
335