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North America
The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent2. Second Edition
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97,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 01.08.2001 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781461639602 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 480 |
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This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North American regions from European exploration and colonization to the second half of the twentieth century. Collectively the contributors explore the key themes of acquisition of geographical knowledge, cultural transfer and acculturation, frontier expansion, spatial organization of society, resource exploitation, regional and national integration, and landscape change. With six new chapters, redrawn maps, a new introduction that explores scholarly trends in historical geography since publication of the first edition, and a new final chapter guiding students to the basic sources for historical geographic enquiry,
<i>North America</i> will be an indispensable text in historical geography courses.
<i>North America</i> will be an indispensable text in historical geography courses.
This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North American regions from European exploration and colonization to the second half of the twentieth century. Collectively the contributors explore the key themes of acquisition of geographical knowledge, cultural transfer and acculturation, frontier expansion, spatial organization of society, resource exploitation, regional and national integration, and landscape change.
Part 1 Part I: Introduction
<br>Chapter 2 The North American Past: Retrospect and Prospect
<br>Part 3 Part II: Colonization: 1490s-1770s
<br>Chapter 4 European Encounters: Discovery and Exploration
<br>Chapter 5 The Spanish Borderlands
<br>Chapter 6 France in North America
<br>Chapter 7 The Colonial Origins of Anglo-America
<br>Chapter 8 Colonial America in the Eighteenth Century
<br>Part 9 Part III: Expansion: 1780s-1860s
<br>Chapter 10 The Geographical Dimensions of a New Nation, 1780s-1820s
<br>Chapter 11 Beyond the Appalachians, 1815-1860
<br>Chapter 12 The Northeast and Regional Integration, 1800-1860
<br>Chapter 13 British North America, 1763-1867
<br>Part 14 Part IV: Consolidation: 1860s-1920s
<br>Chapter 15 Settling the Great Plains, 1850-1930
<br>Chapter 16 The Far West, 1840-1920
<br>Chapter 17 Population Growth, Migration and Urbanization, 1860-1920
<br>Chapter 18 The National Integration of Regional Economies, 1860-1920
<br>Chapter 19 The Progress of American Urbanism, 1860-1930
<br>Chapter 20 Realizing the Idea of Canada
<br>Part 21 Part V: Reorganization: 1930s and Onward
<br>Chapter 22 America between the Wars
<br>Chapter 23 The Twentieth Century American City
<br>Chapter 24 The Other America: Changes in Rural America during the Twentieth Century
<br>Chapter 25 Canadian Cities in a North American Context
<br>Part 26 Part VI: Conclusion
<br>Chapter 27 Historical Geography since 1983
<br>Chapters 28 Sources for Recreating the North American Past
<br>Chapter 2 The North American Past: Retrospect and Prospect
<br>Part 3 Part II: Colonization: 1490s-1770s
<br>Chapter 4 European Encounters: Discovery and Exploration
<br>Chapter 5 The Spanish Borderlands
<br>Chapter 6 France in North America
<br>Chapter 7 The Colonial Origins of Anglo-America
<br>Chapter 8 Colonial America in the Eighteenth Century
<br>Part 9 Part III: Expansion: 1780s-1860s
<br>Chapter 10 The Geographical Dimensions of a New Nation, 1780s-1820s
<br>Chapter 11 Beyond the Appalachians, 1815-1860
<br>Chapter 12 The Northeast and Regional Integration, 1800-1860
<br>Chapter 13 British North America, 1763-1867
<br>Part 14 Part IV: Consolidation: 1860s-1920s
<br>Chapter 15 Settling the Great Plains, 1850-1930
<br>Chapter 16 The Far West, 1840-1920
<br>Chapter 17 Population Growth, Migration and Urbanization, 1860-1920
<br>Chapter 18 The National Integration of Regional Economies, 1860-1920
<br>Chapter 19 The Progress of American Urbanism, 1860-1930
<br>Chapter 20 Realizing the Idea of Canada
<br>Part 21 Part V: Reorganization: 1930s and Onward
<br>Chapter 22 America between the Wars
<br>Chapter 23 The Twentieth Century American City
<br>Chapter 24 The Other America: Changes in Rural America during the Twentieth Century
<br>Chapter 25 Canadian Cities in a North American Context
<br>Part 26 Part VI: Conclusion
<br>Chapter 27 Historical Geography since 1983
<br>Chapters 28 Sources for Recreating the North American Past
<b>Thomas F. McIlwraith</b> is professor of geography at the University of Toronto.
<b>Edward K. Muller</b> is professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh.
<b>Edward K. Muller</b> is professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh.
-Provides both U.S. and Canadian perspectives
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