This collection takes on the call issued by reviewers of The American Way for a critical application of Carville Earle's framework to more geographical examples of political and economic shifts in America's past. The essays illustrate changes in U.S. settlement, development, and political structure through the lens of the restructuring of the American economy and society over approximately fifty year cycles of crisis and recovery. They demonstrate the extension of American's sphere of influence outside of the United States as a larger scalar shift, and they underscore the utility of geography in answering very local questions concerning questions of poorly documented settlement histories. Focusing on the geographic responses to periodic cycles of crisis and recovery and the more general underlying intertwining of geography and history, Geography, History, and the American Political Economy is an incisive demonstration of how the constant restructuring of American politics and economy occurs within spatial and historical constructs.

About the Author
John Heppen is associate professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin at River Falls. Samuel M. Otterstrom is associate professor of geography at Brigham Young University.

Reviews
Insightful essays on American geographical history that examine the rhythms in economic, demographic, and political life at local, regional, and national scales. Valuable for political economists, historical-oriented social scientists and interdisciplinary American Studies professionals. -- Stanley D. Brunn, editor of Collapsing Space and Time: A Geography of Information and Communication



Book Information
ISBN 9780739172490
Author John Heppen
Format Paperback
Page Count 250
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Lexington Books
Weight(grams) 376g
Dimensions(mm) 233mm * 155mm * 15mm