The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape

The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape provides a comprehensive overview of the American landscape in a way fit for the twenty-first century, not only in its topical and regional scope but also in its methodological and disciplinary diversity.

Foreword: Reading the Landscape Introduction: Twenty-first Century American Landscapes Part I: Environmental Landscapes: The American Environment 1 Changes Across Rural America: Agricultural Landscapes 2 Fluid Landscapes 3 Energy Landscapes 4 Wastescapes 5 Public Landscapes 6 American Landscapes of Environmental Injustice Part II: Social, Cultural, and Popular Identities in the American Landscape 7 "This is Not the America I Know": Reading the White Unseen Within the American Landscape 8 Gender, Sexuality, and Landscape 9 Ethnicity and Transnationalism 10 Interpreting the Landscapes of a New Religious America 11 The American Cinematic Landscape Inscribed @Work 12 Music and the American Landscape: Rhythms of Continuity and Change 13 Sports and the American Landscape 14 From Post-Scarcity Utopia to Zombie-Infested Hellscape: Continuity and Change in the Landscape of a Future North America Special Essay: Bridging Social and Political Landscapes: American Landscapes Under Siege: A Provocation Part III: US Political Landscapes 15 American Imperalism 16 Iconographic Landscapes of US Borders and Immigration Controls 17 (De)constructing the Grid: The Public Land Survey System and the Production of Abstract Space in the Early Republic 18 Landscape and Politics: The 2020 Presidential Election in the United States 19 America's Contemporary Commemorative Landscapes: Themes and Practices in Memorial Mania 20 Place (Re)Naming 21 The Landscape of Incarceration in the United States Part IV: Urban and Economic Landscapes in the US 22 Urban Sustainability 23 The Ordinary-Extraordinary Automobile Landscape 24 Tourism in the American Landscape 25 The Changing Rural Landscape 26 Rooted in Place-Retail on the American Landscape 27 Post-Industrial Landscapes 28 Labor and the Changing Economic Landscape of the United States Afterword