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• W764767384 abstract "The Making of the Landscape, 2nd Edition By Michael P. Conzen, Editor York: Routledge, 2010. Xxi + 543 pp. Maps, photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $84.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-415-95007-7.An edited book often has flaws. The Making of the Landscape is free of them is due, in no small way, to the diligence of the editor. Although this is the second edition of the book, it comes two decades after the first and it should be no surprise that the text is substantially different from its earlier edition. chapters have been written, others updated, and still others eliminated; full color maps and photographs enrich this compelling read on how the landscape was created.The Making of the Landscape is, simply stated, an amazing book. It should be required reading for anyone interested in the evolution of landscape. It is also fine text to be used in classes that focus on historical geography or landscape studies more broadly. With twenty chapters, the book offers something for everyone - the imprint of distinct ethnic groups on the landscape, original Native landscapes, mechanization and industrialization, cities, religious landscapes, and consumer landscapes, among many others.The authors of the chapters are the best in their field and write cogently about their topics. There is not single chapter that this reviewer found disappointing or uninteresting. The book is well-crafted, logically organized, and, although each chapter is distinctive in its focus, offers cohesive and comprehensive view of how the landscape was Americanized over the course of the last five centuries. The color illustrations and photographs add to the vivid wording of the text. In the Introduction, Conzen devotes considerable attention to defining landscape and sets forth its guiding principle: themes about clusters of related landscape processes set in broadly historical and regional framework (p. 6). He continues: That some groups prevailed in the course of time over broader territory sets the stage for shifting geographical focus, as major new landscape-molding forces came to prominence and modified regions in varying ways.What makes this book unique is that it uses past landscapes to inform our understanding of the present. The book's early chapters shed light on the landscapes created by Native Americans and those built by the invaders as they tried to place distinct European imprint on the New World. The Spanish, the French, and the English also sought to conquer nature and to transform the landscape in ways that were, initially at least, meant to replicate the landscapes of the Old World. As Peirce Lewis writes: a huge part of the United States continues to bear the imprint of geographical ideas that were imported from England three centuries and more ago . . .. imprint is still visible today, and its patterns continue to shape our lives (p. 114). Cole Harris reminds us that while the French imprint in the United States is sparse, muted, and mostly blurred, ... in few localities ... it stands in bold defiance of patterns of later dominance (p. 90). David Hornbeck argues that the American landscape is replete with symbols and relics of Spanish colonization and influence in shaping the cast reaches of the continent (p. 72).A few chapters examine specific regions - the South, the Great Plains, and the Intermountain West - demonstrating how economic and natural landscapes were influenced by the earliest settlers and continue to be transformed by modern economies, new ecological understandings, and the demand for water. …" @default.
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