Looks at the ways Americans have altered the landscape from the arrival of early Spanish settlers to the beginning of the country's rapid urbanization

As striking in its originality as it is revealing, this fascinating pocket history of the American landscape dissects our visual surroundings, transforming the

A lexicon and guide for discovering the essence of landscape.

Exploring America's material culture, Common Places reveals the history, culture, and social and class relationships that are the backdrop of the everyday struc