The shaping of America : a geographical perspective on 500 years of history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Meinig, D. W. (Donald William), 1924-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1986-©2004.
Subjects:	Ontstaansgeschiedenis. Geografische aspecten. United States > History. United States > Historical geography. EE. UU > Geografía histórica. États-Unis > Histoire. États-Unis > Géographie historique.
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Table of Contents:

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.