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Introduction: encounters with environment and place, Alexander B.Murphy, Douglas L. Johnson. Part 1: constructing cultural spaces;domestic architecture in early colonial Mexico; material culture as(sub) text, Karl W. Butzer, Elisabeth K. Butzer; the clash of utopias -Sisterdale and the six-sided struggle for the Texas Hill Country,Michael P. Cozen; the struggle for urban public spaces - disposing ofthe Toronto Waterfront in the 19th century, Peter G. Goheen; place yourbets - rates in frontier expansion in American history, Carville Earle.Part 2: remaking the environment; Wittfogel East and West - changingperspectives on water development in South Asia and the United States,James L. Westcoat Jr.; wetlands as conserved landscapes in the UnitedStates, James A. Schmid; navigability of American waters - resolvingconflict through applied historical geography, John A. Kirchner;environmental history - from the conquest to the rescue of nature,David Lowenthal. Part 3: claiming places; place metaphor and milieu inHemingway's fiction, Anne Buttimer; cultural and medical geography -evolution, convergence, and innovation, Charles M. Good; language andidentity in Russia's national homelands - urban-rural contrasts,Chauncy D. Harris; sharing sacred space in the Holy Land, Chad F.Emmett; an absence of place - expectation and realization in the WestBank, Shaul E. Cohen; conclusion - contemplating enduring themes andfuture trajectories, Alexander B. Murphy, Douglas L. Johnson. Epilogue:each particular place - culture and geography, Philip L. Wagner.