Geography, History, and the American Political Economy

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. Approaching America's geographical history / John Heppen and Samuel M. Otterstrom Earle's theory and conception of the geographical history of the United States / Anne E. Mosher The French in the Illinois country, 1699-1735 : using historical geography to understand European-Indian history / M.J. Morgan Economic diversity, industrialization, and urbanization in early nineteenth century Connecticut / Kristen N. Keegan The structural transformation of the antebellum Red River Valley settlement systems in Louisiana / Keumsoo Hong Earle's dialectical policy regimes and the Erie Canal / Anne E. Mosher The interplay of manufacturing employment and population concentrations in the United States, 1840-1990 / Samuel M. Otterstrom Regional income convergence and a decennial core-periphery regionalization of the United States, 1929-2000 / John Heppen Pre-industrial, industrial, and post-industrial electoral alignments in Ohio / Emily J. Duda and Fred M. Shelley Globalization bites back : a new type of crisis for the "American Way" / John Agnew The rhythms of America's geographical past / Samuel M. Otterstrom and John Heppen. "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." Argumentaire de l'ouvrage These essays focus on the geographic responses to periodic cycles of crisis and recovery and the more general underlying intertwining of geography and history, demonstrating how the constant restructuring of American politics and economy occurs within spatial and historical constructs.