Not Yet a Placeless Land: Tracking an Evolving American Geography

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Copyright © 2011 by Wilbur Zelinsky All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 2011010042 ISBN 978-1-55849-871-6 (paper); 870-9 (library cloth) Designed by Dennis Anderson Set in Janson Text with Berthold Walbaum Book display by Westchester Book Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Zelinsky, Wilbur, 1921– Not yet a placeless land : tracking an evolving American geography / Wilbur Zelinsky. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 978-1-55849-871-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)— ISBN 978-1-55849-870-9 (library cloth : alk. paper) 1. Human geography—United States. 2. Cultural geography—United States. 3. National characteristics, American. 4. United States—Civilization. 5. United States—Historical geography. I. Title. GF503.Z45 2011 304.20973—dc22 2011010042 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available. To all those departed ones whom I sorely miss and who helped make my life joyful and meaningful, namely: Ab and Minna Abernethy Glenda Laws Angharad of Derring-Do Joan Lee Homer Aschmann Bernie Levin Augie Doggie Mighty Manfred Lowell Livezey Calvin Beale Tony Malone Catherine Bell Charles Mann Ann Benson Barbara Mastoon The original Bob Bialek Irving Mastoon John Black Harold Mayer Jim Blaut Bob McNee John Borchert Scudder Mekeel Bernard Brindel Hans Neuberger John Brush Clarence Newman Helen Cary David and Mary Niddrie Fred Cassidy Nikki J. N. Copland Jim Parsons Lou and Chloe Davenport Clifford Pilz Floyd Dell Arthur Robinson Ida Epstein David Rubinfien Wilma Fairchild Carl Sauer Rose Falstein Junius Scales Allen Fonoroff Lou Seig Barbara Hughes Fowler Lawrence Shapiro Sam Furash Paul Simkins Hans Gerth J. McA. Smiley Marshall Glasier Frank Smith Harvey Goldberg David Sopher Rhoda Gould Joe Spencer Alan Gowans George R. Stewart Henry Greene Thais Lilith Jezebel Skittercat David Grene Glenn Trewartha Casey and Helen Gurewitz Ed Ullman Kurt Hanslowe Nick and Helen Vergette Chauncy Harris Anatole Volkov Rikki Harrison Leo Waibel Donald Q. Innis Inez “Snooky” Williams J. B. Jackson Ralph and Zena Winstead Bob Johnsrud John K. Wright Terry Jordan Jim Lahey and, most of all, Harry Lassen Gladys Zelinsky Whither you will: all places are alike. Christopher Marlowe, Edward II (1594) “Placelessness,” then, may simply be place ignored, unseen, or unknown. Lucy R. Lippard, The Lure of the Local ...