Screen LibraryA world made for money : economy, geography, and the way we live today /
"A spirited and incisive survey of economic geography, A World Made for Money begins with the author stopped at a red light in Norman, Oklahoma. Observing the landscape of drugstores and banks, and for that matter the stoplight and roads themselves, Bret Wallach observes, "Everything I see...
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University of Nebraska Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Lincoln : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"A spirited and incisive survey of economic geography, A World Made for Money begins with the author stopped at a red light in Norman, Oklahoma. Observing the landscape of drugstores and banks, and for that matter the stoplight and roads themselves, Bret Wallach observes, "Everything I see has been built to make money" or, at the very least, to facilitate making money. This, he argues, is a global phenomenon that nonetheless has occurred only within the past hundred years or so. Although guidebooks and culture brokers often disparage these landscapes of commerce, Wallach--recipient of a MacA "An accessible survey of money and landscape around the world"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 470 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-441) and index. |
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9780803298910 (hardback : alk. paper) : 0803298919 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | HF1025 |
| CLC: | F119.9 |
| Call Number: | F119.9/W195 |
| Contents: | Shopping -- Making -- Moving -- Fueling -- Mining -- Farming -- Developing -- Building -- Escaping. |