The American Way A Geographical History of

The geography of contemporary U.S. political economy has roots that run deep into our past. Earle traces their growth to the seventeenth-century origins of liberalism, republicanism, and financial crises.

Carville Earle is Carl O. Sauer Professor of Geography at Louisiana State University

List of Figures

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List of Tables

xiii

Acknowledgments

xvii

Introduction

1

(14)

PART ONE: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS

1 Space, Time, and the American Way

15

(12)

2 The Periodic Structuring of the American Past

27

(12)

3 The Dynamics of Policy Regimes: Liberalism, Republicanism, and Their Variants

39

(16)

4 Policy Regimes and Geographical Reconstructions

55

(30)

5 Regulatory Regimes and the Geographies of Producer and Consumer Revolutions

85

(28)

6 Spatial Enlargements in American Power: Sectional, National, and Transnational States

113

(96)

PART TWO: COLONIAL FOUNDATIONS

7 Backing into Empire

209

(20)

8 "We are all English. That is one good fact.": Cromwell's Model Republican Geographies, 1630's-1680's

229

(24)

9 Lockean Geographies: Liberalism and Its Geographical Consequences, 1680's-1730's

253

(40)

10 Imperial Geographies: The Republican Restoration, 1740's-1780's

293

(42)

PART THREE: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIES

11 Out with the Old, in with the New: The Reconstitution of the American States and Its Geographical Parameters

335

(12)

12 Space/Time: Four Spatial Variables across Two Centuries and Five Policy Regimes: The National Era, 1780's-2000

347

(62)

References

409

(26)

Index

435

(14)

About the Author

449

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The American Way A Geographical History of Crisis and Recovery

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