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Earning the Rockies How Geography Shapes Americas Role in the World


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An incisive portrait of the American landscape that shows how geography continues to determine America's role in the world--from the bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and Balkan Ghosts As a boy, Robert D. Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father tell evocative stories about traveling across America in his youth, travels in which he learned to understand the country literally from the

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An incisive portrait of the American landscape that shows how geography continues to determine America's role in the world--from the bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and Balkan Ghosts As a boy, Robert D. Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father tell evocative stories about traveling across America in his youth, travels in which he learned to understand the country literally from the ground up. There was a specific phrase from Kaplan's childhood that captured this perspective: A westward traveler must -earn the Rockies- by driving--not flying--across the flat Midwest and Great Plains. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation of American geography often lost in the jet age. Traveling west, in the same direction as the pioneers, Kaplan traverses a rich and varied landscape that remains the primary source of American power. Along the way, he witnesses both prosperity and decline--increasingly cosmopolitan cities that thrive on globalization, impoverished towns denuded by the loss of manufacturing--and paints a bracingly clear picture of America today. The history of westward expansion is examined here in a new light--as a story not just of genocide and individualism, but also of communalism and a respect for the limits of a water-starved terrain, a frontier experience that bent our national character toward pragmatism. Kaplan shows how the great midcentury works of geography and geopolitics by Bernard DeVoto, Walter Prescott Webb, and Wallace Stegner are more relevant today than ever before. Concluding his journey at Naval Base San Diego, Kaplan looks out across the Pacific Ocean to the next frontier: China, India, and the emerging nations of Asia. And in the final chapter, he provides a gripping description of an anarchic world and explains why America's foreign policy response ought to be rooted in its own geographical situation. In this short, intense meditation on the American landscape, Robert D. Kaplan reminds us of an overlooked source of American strength: the fact that we are a nation, empire, and continent all at once. Earning the Rockies is an urgent reminder of how a nation's geography still foreshadows its future, and how we must reexamine our own landscape in order to confront the challenges that lie before us. Praise for Earning the Rockies -A text both evocative and provocative for readers who like to think . . . In his final sections, Kaplan discusses in scholarly but accessible detail the significant role that America has played and must play in this shuddering world.---Kirkus Reviews -Earning the Rockies is a brilliant reminder of the impact of America's geography on its strategy. An essential complement to his previous work on the subject of geostrategy, Kaplan's latest contribution should be required reading.---Henry A. Kissinger -Robert D. Kaplan uses America's unique geography and frontier experience to provide a lens-changing vision of America's role in the world, one that will capture your imagination. Unflinchingly honest, this refreshing approach shows how ideas from outside Washington, D.C., will balance America's idealism and pragmatism in dealing with a changed world. A jewel of a book, Earning the Rockies lights the path ahead.---General (Ret.) James Mattis

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Vitajte na našom webe, ktorý sa špecializuje na sprievodcov, mapy a atlasy pre cestovateľov navštíviť Ameriku. Ak plánujete cestu do tohto obrovskej a pestrofarebného kontinentu, sme tu, aby sme vám poskytli všetky potrebné informácie a nástroje na naplánovanie vášho nezabudnuteľného dobrodružstvo. Naša podkategória Amerika vám ponúka široký výber sprievodcov, map a atlasov, ktoré sú špeciálne prispôsobené pre rôzne destinácie v Amerike. Bez ohľadu na to, či sa chystáte navštíviť slávny Národný park Grand Canyon v Arizone, pôvabné pláže v Karibiku alebo veľkomestá ako New York či Los Angeles, máme pre vás všetko, čo potrebujete. Naše sprievodcovia sú plné užitočných tipov a informácií o miestnych atrakciách, histórii, kultúre a miestnych zvykoch. Máte radi dobrodružné túry alebo sa radšej prejdete po múzeách a galériách? Nech to je akokoľvek, naše sprievodcovia vás navádzajú po najlepších trasiach a odporúčajú najzaujímavejšie miesta, ktoré by ste nemali vynechať. Okrem sprievodcov tu nájdete aj širokú ponuku map a atlasov, ktoré sú špeciálne navrhnuté tak, aby vám pomohli plánovať a navigovať po miestnych cestách, diaľniciach a prepravných systémoch. Naše mapy sú presné a aktualizované, aby vám zabezpečili bezpečnú a hladkú cestu. Pre tých, ktorí majú radi dobrodružstvo mimo vyšliapaných ciest, ponúkame aj mapy s trasami pre turistov, cyklistov a turistov. Či už plánujete krátku dovolenku alebo dlhý pobyt v Amerike, naša podkategória Amerika vám pomôže s každým krokom plánovania. Ponúkame tiež rôzne druhy sprievodcov, map a atlasov, ktoré môžete si zakúpiť online a doručíme vám ich priamo domov. Takže nech sa vaša cesta stane nezabudnuteľným dobrodružstvom, objavte s nami krásy a pôvab kontinentu Amerika.

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