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The shaping of America : a geographical perspective on 500 years of history /
Volume one examines how an immense diversity of ethnic and religious groups ultimately created a set of distict regional societies. Volume two emphasises the flux, uncertainty, and unpredictablilty of the expansion into continental America, showing how a multitude of individuals confronted complex a...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©1986-©2004.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- v. 1. Atlantic America, 1492-1800
- List of illustrations and tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- pt. 1. Outreach : the creation of an Atlantic world
- Prologue
- 1. America as a continuation
- 2. Iberian initiatives
- 3. The creation of New Spain
- 4. The Luso-Farican contribution
- 5. Initiatives in the North and Huguenot enterprise
- 6. The emergence of the English
- 7. Implantations from Northwest Europe
- 8. Generalizations : European source regions
- 9. Generalizations : sectors and circuits of the Atlantic world
- 10. Generalizations : geographic models of interaction
- pt. 2. Implantations : the creation of American diversity
- Prologue
- 1. Peoples and places
- 2. Northern coasts : beginnings
- 3. New England
- 4. Northern entryways : the St. Lawrence
- 5. Northern entryways : Hudson Bay
- 6. Northern entryways : the Hudson River
- 7. Northern entryways : the Delaware
- 8. Pennsylvania
- 9. Emergency of Greater Virginia
- 10. Tropical islands
- 11. Carolina and the Carolinas
- 12. Florida
- 13. Louisiana
- 14. Texas and the lower Rio Grande
- 15. Encounter and change : Europeans and Indians
- 16. Migration and change : Europeans overseas
- 17. Enslavement and change : Africans in America
- 18. Defining areas
- 19. The Europeanized area : populations and regional societies, circa 1750.
- pt. 3. Reorganizations : the creation of an American matrix
- Prologue
- 1. A geographical transect of the Atlantic world
- 2. The Great War and its alterations of empires
- 3. Reorganization: Northern America
- 4. Reorganization : tropical America
- 5. Reorganization : interior America
- 6. Expansions, 1750-1775
- 7. Divergence
- 8. Disruption
- 9. Reorganization : British North America
- 10. Destabilization : tropical America
- 11. Unification: forming the United States
- 12. Emergence of a federal nation
- 13. Generalizations : the disintegration of empires
- 14. Generalizations : the problems of federations
- 15. Generalizations : nation-building
- 16. Generalizations : expansionism, American-style
- pt. 4. Context : the United States circa 1800
- Prologue
- 1. The United States in North America
- 2. The United States and Europe
- 3. E pluribus unum, in uno plures?
- Sources of quotations
- Bibliography
- Index.
- v. 2. Continental America, 1800-1867
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- pt. 1. Extension : the creation of a continental empire
- Prologue
- 1. Doubling the national territory : Louisiana
- 2. Pressures on the borders : southward
- 3. Pressures on the borders : northward
- 4. The reach westward : to circa 1830
- 5. Shoving the Indians out of the way
- 6. Assertion and division : Oregon and the Northern boundary
- 7. Annexation and conquest : Texas and the Hispanic borderlands
- 8. Spanning a continent
- and ocean
- 9. Empire : the geopolitical management of captive peoples
- 10. Continentalism : objectives, modes, visions
- pt. 2. Expansion : the growth of a continental nation
- Prologue
- 1. Filling in the framework : migration westward
- 2. Occupying new ground : colonization, American style
- 3. Planting new societies : New England extended
- 4. Planting new societies : Virginia extended
- 5. Planting new societies : midlands extended
- 6. Planting new societies : the cotton belt and South Carolina extended.
- 7. Color in the plantings : the Afro-American presence
- 8. Making new pathways : waterways, roads, and rails
- 9. Tying the parts together : national programs
- 10. Creating new centers : cities and systems of cities
- 11. Harnessing new forces : industries an industrial regions
- 12. Cementing the parts together : an American nation
- 13. Morphology : the shape of the United States, 1850s
- pt. 3. Tension : the sundering of a federation
- Prologue
- 1. The shaping of new states
- 2. Expanding the federation
- 3. The idea of separation
- 4. Disintegration
- 5. Geopolitical alternatives
- 6. Conquest and emancipation
- 7. Empire, nation, federation : geopolitical contentions
- pt. 4. Context : the United States in North America circa 1867
- Prologue
- 1. Continental America
- 2. The northern borderlands
- 3. Hispanic borderlands
- 4. The Afro-American archipelago
- 5. A wider presence
- Sources of quotations
- Bibliography
- Index.
- v. 3. Transcontinental America, 1850-1915
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- pt. 1. Articulation : binding the coasts together
- Prologue
- 1. Forging the iron bond
- pt. 2. Dominion : the emergence of American Wests
- Prologue
- 1. Delineating the New West
- 2. California
- 3. Southern California
- 4. Oregon and the Pacific Northwest
- 5. Zion, Deseret, and Utah
- 6. New Mexico : Hispanic, Indian, Anglo
- 7. The Colorado complex
- 8. The rest of the West
- 9. Indians and empire
- 10. American Wests-American domain
- pt. 3. Consolidation : structuring an American nation
- Prologue
- 1. A re-United States
- 2. New economic regions
- 3. Railroads : the contest for territory
- 4. Populations and peoples
- 5. Systems and symbols
- pt. 4. Spheres : American influence and outreach
- Prologue
- 1. Canada and continentalism
- 2. Mexico and an American Mediterranean
- 3. Hawaii and an American Pacific
- 4. Panama and transcontinental completion
- Sources of quotations
- Bibliography
- Index.
- v. 4. Global America, 1915-2000
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- pt. 1. Technology : mobilization and acceleration
- Prologue
- 1. Mobilization : the automotive revolution
- 2. Mobilization : neotechnic evolution
- 3. Acceleration : on the surface
- 4. Acceleration : in the air
- 5. Acceleration : invisible and instantaneous
- pt. 2. Morphology : migrations and formations
- Prologue
- 1. Populations and policies, 1915-1950s
- 2. Regionalism, 1920s-1950
- 3. A reconnaissance of regions
- 4. Midcentury morphology
- 5. Altering the federation and internal empire
- 6. Populations and policies, 1950s-1990s
- 7. Some reconfigurations-- 8. Reshaping the nation
- pt. 3. Mission : assertions and impositions
- Prologue
- 1. Assertions : America and Europe
- 2. Impositions : war and interwar, Europe and Asia
- 3. Impositions : Western hemisphere
- 4. Redividing the world
- 5. Impositions and oppositions
- 6. America and the world
- Sources of quotations
- Bibliography
- Index.