AMST 230 Final, Fall 2007
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AMST 230 Cultural Geography of North America
Final Exam
Please answer 2 of the following questions.
1. More than twenty years after its publication, what are the strengths and weaknesses of
Garreau’s “Nine Nations” hypothesis?
2. According to Cronon, what is “the trouble with wilderness”? If his thesis is correct,
what does this imply about what can be done to repair the “trouble”? Does it have public
policy implications? To what extent do you think he is right, and why?
3. Why are Americans so obsessed with automobiles? Are they a particularly American
obsession? What are the most important consequences of this obsession?