North America The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent

Name: North America The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent
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ISBN: 9780742500198

ISBN-10: 0742500195

ISBN-13: 9780742500198

Edition: 2nd 2001 (Revised)

Authors: Thomas F. McIlwraith, Edward K. Muller, Carville Earle, Cole Harris, Michael P. Conzen

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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.

Book details

List price: $95.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

R. Cole Harris is Professor of Geography, University of British Columbia.



Tables


Figures


Preface



Introduction



The North American Past: Retrospect and Prospect




Colonization: 1490s-1770s



European Encounters: Discovery and Exploration




The Spanish Borderlands




France in North America




The Colonial Origins of Anglo-America




Colonial America in the 18th Century




Expansion: 1780s-1860s



The Geographical Dimensions of a New Nation, 1780s-1820s




Beyond the Appalachians, 1815-1860




The Northeast and Regional Integration, 1800-1860




British North America, 1763-1867




Consolidation: 1860s-1920s



Settling the Great Plains, 1850-1930: Prospects and Problems




The Far West, 1840-1920




Population Growth, Migration, and Urbanization, 1860-1920




The National Integration of Regional Economies, 1860-1920




The Progress of American Urbanism, 1860-1930




Realizing the Idea of Canada




Reorganization: 1930s and Onward



America between the Wars: The Engineering of a New Geography




The Other America: Changes in Rural America during the 20th Century




The 20th-Century American City




Canadian Cities in a North American Context




Conclusion



Historical Geography since 1987




Sources for Recreating the North American Past



Index


About the Contributors