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1.Introduction, John A. Agnew Part I.Environmental Ideals and Realities 2.The Place of Nature in America, Jonathan M. Smith 3.The Place of Value in the United States, Jonathan M. Smith Part II. Political-Economic Dimensions of the American Experience 4.America, Frontier Nation: From Abstract Space to Worldly Place, John A. Agnew and Joanne P. Sharp 5.Local Territories of US Government: From Ideals to the Politics of Place and Scale, Andrew E.G. Jonas 6.Urban and Regional Restructuring in the United States in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century, David L. Rigby Part III. Social-Cultural Dimensions of Americaness 7....with liberty and justice for all: Negotiating Freedom and Fairness in the American Income Distribution, Janet E. Kodors 8.A New Geography of Identity? Race, Ethnicity and American Citizenship, Benjamin Forest 9.Landscape, Aesthetics and Power, James S. Duncan and David R. Lambert 10.Mediascapes, Paul Adams Part IV.Conclusion 11.American Geographical Ironies: A Conclusion, Jonathan M. Smith Index About the Contributors