The Changing American Landscape  

See the Timeline of Art History on the website for the Metropolitan Museum of Art: for an excellent overview of art history and general human development from 20,000 BC on as reflected by their own vast collection. The site is constantly changing, has a great deal of information about American art, and is lots of fun. Click onto the page called "First-Time Use" for a good explanation of how to best navigate the site.

Arcadia Publishing Web Site home of Images of America series

ART

1. American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880. Princeton University Press (July 2, 2003)

1.       American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880
Princeton University Press (July 2, 2003)
Andrew Wilton, Tim Barringer

2.       George Inness and the Visionary Landscape (Hardcover)
George Braziller; 1st edition (November 10, 2003)
Adrienne Baxter Bell

3.       Americans in Paris 1850-1910: The Academy, the Salon, the Studio, and the Artists Colony (Paperback)
Carolyn Hill (Foreword), Barbara H. Weinberg, Gabriel P. Weisberg, George Hardy, Hardy George (Editor)

4.       Nineteenth-Century American Art

Oxford University Press (November 2000) paperback, 234 pages

Barbara Groseclose

| Top |ARCHITECTURE

1.       Architecture after Richardson: Regionalism before Modernism--Longfellow, Alden, and Harlow in Boston and Pittsburgh (Hardcover)
University Of Chicago Press (September 1, 1994)
Margaret Henderson Floyd

2.       Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850 

Yale University Press (November 1, 2002) - Hardcover: 312 pages

Barksdale Maynard

3.       A Building History of Northern New England

University Press of New England; 1st edition (September, 2002) Paperback: 211 pages

James L. Garvin

| Top |LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

1.       Pioneers of American Landscape Design (Hardcover)
Charles A. Birnbaum, Robin Karson, National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative

2.       The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Vol. 60, No. 3, September 2001
... the authoritative source ... for essential information on the men and women who molded so much of America's outdoor space.

3.       The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: The Years of Olmsted, Vaux & Co. 1865-1874 (The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted) (Hardcover)
The Johns Hopkins University Press (June 1, 1992)
Frederick Law Olmsted

CHANGING RURAL AMERICA

1.       Born in the Country: A History of Rural America (Revisiting Rural America) (Paperback)
The Johns Hopkins University Press (June 1, 1995)
David B. Danbom

| Top |URBAN PLANNING

1.       Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene (Paperback)
Yale University Press; Reprint edition (September 10, 1985)
John Stilgoe

2.       The Birth of City Planning in the United States, 1840--1917
(Creating the North American Landscape) (Hardcover)
The Johns Hopkins University Press (August 30, 2003)
Jon A. Peterson

3.       The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History) (Paperback)
The Johns Hopkins University Press (June 1, 1992)

4.       Boston's "Changeful Times": Origins of Preservation and Planning in America (Creating the North American Landscape) (Paperback)
The Johns Hopkins University Press (February 1, 2001)
Michael Holleran

5.       Streetcar Suburbs the Process of Growth in Boston (Paperback)
Macmillan Pub Co (June, 1969)
Sam B. Warner

6.       The Great Boston Fire of 1872 (Images of America Series) (Paperback) 128 pages

Arcadia Publishing (July 1, 1997)

Anthony Mitchell Sammarco

| Top |INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

1.       The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile Mills and the Families Whose Wealth They Wove (Paperback)
St. Martin's Griffin (March 4, 2004)
William Moran

2.       Farm to Factory (Paperback)
Columbia University Press; Second Edition edition (April 15, 1993)
Thomas Dublin

GENERAL

Adams, Stephen. The Best and Worst Country in the World: Perspectives on the Early Virginia Landscape. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 2001.

Ausband, Stephen C. Byrd's Line: A Natural History. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2002.

Barillas, William. The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland. Athens: Ohio UP, 2006.

Browne, Neil W. The World in Which We Occur: John Dewey, Pragmatist Ecology, and American Ecological Writing in the Twentieth Century. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2007.

Casteel, Sarah P. Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2007.

Costello, Bonnie. Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2003.

Dean, Sharon L. Constance Fenimore Woolson and Edith Wharton: Perspectives on Landscape and Art. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 200

Dreese, Donelle N. Ecocriticism: Creating Self and Place in Environmental and American Indian Literatures. NY: Peter Lang, 2002.

Egan, Ken, Jr. Hope and Dread in Montana Literature. Reno: U of Nevada P, 2003.

Hebebrand, Christina M. Native American and Chicano/a Literature of the American Southwest: Intersections of Indigenous Literature. NY: Routledge, 2004.

Herring, Scott. Lines on the Land: Writers, Art, and the National Parks. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2004.

Lopez, Barry. ed. Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape. San Antonio, TX: Trinity UP, 2006.

Nabhan, Gary P. Arab American: Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Deserts. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 2008.

Olwig, Kenneth R. and Tuan, Yi-Fu. Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic: From Britain's Renaissance to America's New World. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2002.

Powell, Douglas R. Critical Regionalism: Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2007.

Ryden, Kent C. and Franklin, Wayne. Landscape with Figures: Nature and Culture in New England. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2001.

Schweninger, Lee. Listening to the Land: Native American Literary Responses to the Landscape. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2008.

Simo, Melanie L. Literature of Place: Dwelling on the Land before Earth Day 1970. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2005.

Teuton, Sean K. Red Land, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2008.

Tichi, Cecelia. Embodiment of a Nation: Human Form in American Places. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2001.

Simo, Melanie L. Literature of Place: Dwelling on the Land before Earth Day 1970. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2005.

Teuton, Sean K. Red Land, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2008.

Tichi, Cecelia. Embodiment of a Nation: Human Form in American Places. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2001.

Truettnet, William H. and Roger B. Stein, editors. Picturing Old New England. Yale UP, 1999.

Williamson, Alan. Westernness: A Meditation. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2006.

MLA Style Citation of this Web Page

Reuben, Paul P. "PAL: Appendix W: The Changing American Landscape." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. URL:  http://www.paulreuben.website/pal/append/axw.html (provide page date or date of your login).