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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.
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.
California's history is rich and diverse, with numerous fascinating
stories hidden in its past. Before the discovery of gold in the
Sierras, San Francisco (Yerba Buena) and its surroundings comprised
a sparsely populated frontier on the edge of the old Spanish realm.
After 1848, the area rapidly transformed into a settled urban
system as a tremendous influx of prospectors and settlers came to
seek their fortune in California. A wave of gold miners, merchants,
farmers, politicians, carpenters, and many others from various
backgrounds and corners of the world migrated to the area at that
time. Interrelated social, geographic, and economic processes led
to a very quick metamorphosis from frontier settlement to a firmly
established system with ingrained economic patterns. The
development of San Francisco's outlying region from a wilderness
into a prosperous village and farming mecca shows how quickly
in-migration coupled with economic diversification can establish a
stable settlement structure upon the landscape. Otterstrom
describes an intricately woven tapestry of interrelated people who
were contributing creators of a wide variety of prosperous northern
California environs. He uncovers the processes that converted this
sleepy post-Mexican outpost into a focal point of nearly
hyperactive youthful growth. The narrative follows this crucial
story of settlement development until the dawn of the twentieth
century, through the interconnected framework of individual and
family ingenuity, migration trajectories, and diverse geographical
scales. Multiplying individualistic experiences from across
far-flung appendages of the Northern California system into larger
and larger scales, Otterstrom has achieved a matchless historical
and sociological study that will form the basis for any future
studies of the area.
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