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

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

D.W. Meinig

Yale University Press, 1986-

  • v. 1
  • v. 1 : pbk
  • v. 2
  • v. 2 : pbk
  • v. 3
  • v. 3 : pbk
  • v. 4
  • v. 4 : pbk

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注記

Bibliography: v. 1, p. 461-479, v. 2, p. 579-606, v. 3, p. 413-441, v. 4, p. 421-450

Includes indexes

収録内容

  • v. 1. Atlantic America, 1492-1800
  • v. 2. Continental America, 1800-1867
  • v. 3. Transcontinental America, 1850-1915
  • v. 4. Global America, 1915-2000

内容説明・目次

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v. 1 : pbk ISBN 9780300038828

内容説明

This entirely fresh interpretation of American history by a renowned historical geographer is the first in a projected three-volume series. Meinig here focuses on colonial America, examining how an immense diversity of ethnic and religious groups-Europeans, Africans, American Indians-ultimately created a set of distinct regional societies. Richly illustrated with more then forty specially prepared maps and contemporary illustrations, this volume prompts us to rethink the settling of North America. "A standard work in its field. . . . For readers seeking a bird's-eye view of early American geography. . . there is no better guide available."-William Cronon, New York Times Book Review "Simply the best book in the English language by a contemporary geographer I have read over the past forty-odd years, and one of the most important. . . . A magisterial achievement, a grand shaking up and reassembling of fact and ideas."-Wilbur Zelinsky, Journal of Geography "All historians of the American experience should read and come to terms with this book."-Malcolm J. Rohrbough, Georgia Historical Quarterly "This book is a masterpiece in the best and old sense of the word."-Alfred W. Crosby, Southwestern Historical Quarterly
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v. 2 ISBN 9780300056587

内容説明

In this volume, the second in a series, D.W. Meinig provides a fresh interpretation of the American past, bringing his special geographical perspective to the years between 1800 and 1867, the period when the nation experienced a dramatic expansion in territory, population, economy, and political tension that culminated in the Civil War. As in his first volume, "Atlantic America", Meinig assesses the characteristics of regions and political territories and the relations among them, examining the dual roles played by geopolitics and ethnoculture in the shaping of the United States. Meinig emphasizes the flux, uncertainty, and unpredictability of the expansion into continental America, showing how a multitude of individuals confronted complex and problematic issues. He discusses, for example, Jefferson's options regarding the Louisiana Purchase and the effects of his decisions on the Louisianians, and later controversies about US pressures on Mexico and Cuba. He carefully traces the expansion of distinct regional societies and the social and geographical repositioning of various peoples (Indians, African-Americans, and subgroups of each). He describes and assesses the emerging patterns of cities, waterways, roads, railways, and attempts at national planning. And he presents the geopolitical alternatives considered in dealing with initial secessions, and the ragged tearing apart of the nation in 1861. Throughout, Meinig places the United States in its broader North American context, focusing on its relations with Canada, Mexico and the West Indies. It is illustrated with maps, plans, and scenes, many of which were specially prepared for the book.

目次

List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements PART ONE 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 9 Empire: The Geopolitical Management of Captive Peoples 10 Continentalism: Objectives, Modes, Visions PART TWO Expansion: The Growth of a Continental Nation Prologue I 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 Planing New Societies: Midlands Extended 6 Planting New Societies: The Cotton Belt and South Carolina 7 Colour in the Plantings: The Afro-American Presence 8 Making New Pathways: Waterways, Roads, Rails 9 Tying the Parts Together 10 Creating New Centers: Cities and Systems of Cities 11 Harnessing New Forces: Industries and Industrial Regions 12 Cementing the Parts Together: An American Nation 13 Morphology: The Shape of the United States, 1850s PART THREE 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 PART FOUR 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.
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v. 2 : pbk ISBN 9780300062908

内容説明

When Volume 1 of Donald Meinig's sweeping history of America was published, reviewers called it "a masterpiece in the best and old sense of the word" (Alfred W. Crosby, Southwestern Historical Quarterly), "a standard work in its field" (William Cronon, New York Times Book Review), and "one of the classic amalgamations of geography and history in the current literature" (Kenneth C. Martis, Journal of American History). In this new volume, the second in a projected four-volume series, D. W. Meinig again provides a fresh interpretation of the American past, bringing his special geographical perspective to the years between 1800 and 1867, the period when the nation experienced a dramatic expansion in territory, population, economy, and political tension that culminated in the Civil War. As in his first volume, Atlantic America, Meinig assesses the characteristics of regions and political territories and the relations among them, examining the dual roles played by geopolitics and ethnoculture in the shaping of the United States. Meinig emphasizes the flux, uncertainty, and unpredictability of the expansion into continental America, showing how a multitude of individuals confronted complex and problematic issues. He discusses, for example, Jefferson's options regarding the Louisiana Purchase and the effects of his decisions on the Louisianians, and later controversies about U.S. pressures on Mexico and Cuba. He carefully traces the expansion of distinct regional societies and the social and geographical repositioning of various peoples (Indians, African-Americans, and subgroups of each). He describes and assesses the emerging patterns of cities, waterways, roads, railways, and attempts at national planning. And he presents the geopolitical alternatives considered in dealing with initial secessions, and the ragged tearing apart of the nation in 1861. Throughout, Meinig places the United States in its broader North American context, focusing on its relations with Canada, Mexico, and the West Indies. Richly illustrated with maps, plans, and scenes, many of which were specially prepared for the book, Continental America is at once an invaluable complement to and a penetrating critique of more ordinary American histories.
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v. 3 ISBN 9780300075922

内容説明

This volume on America's development from the mid-19th century to 1915 begins with the struggle over where to build the Pacific railway. Meinig portrays the settlement of the American West, examines the South as an imperial province, and considers America's pressures upon Canada and Mexico.
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v. 3 : pbk ISBN 9780300082906

内容説明

This is the third of four volumes in a series acclaimed by both historians and geographers for its breathtaking scope and originality. D. W. Meinig continues his riveting account of America's interwoven history and geography, describing the expanding country's development from the mid-nineteenth century to 1915. To accompany his interpretation of America's geographic evolution, Meinig offers forty superb new maps and forty-five other illustrations. Each original map enhances our historical understanding of the patterns, features, and themes of American history. The book begins with the struggle over where to build the Pacific railway and fix the nation's first transcontinental axis. Meinig portrays in detail the settlement of the diverse regions of the American West and how these many "Wests" were incorporated into the growing nation. He then examines the South as an imperial province and the dominance of the American Core over an increasingly consolidated nation. In conclusion, the author considers America's imperial pressures upon Canada and Mexico, the country's overt expansions in the Caribbean and the Pacific, and the Panama Canal as a transcontinental completion.
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v. 4 ISBN 9780300104325

内容説明

This landmark book, the concluding volume of D. W. Meinig's magisterial series The Shaping of America presents the story of America's interwoven history from 1915 to 2000. The author describes decades of enormous growth and change in his characteristic engaging style, and through more than seventy original maps he ingeniously depicts diverse twentieth-century trends and developments. The book addresses the expanding nation's progress in terms of the automotive revolution; neotechnic evolution; access to air travel; growth of instantaneous forms of communication, including telephones, television, and the Internet; and such political events as World War II. Meining relates these developments to social and geographic trends, among them patterns of urban migration, regionalism, metropolitanization, the beginnings of the urban megalopolis, shifts in ethnic and religious populations, and, on a more global scale, transformations in America's connections with Europe, Asia, and Latin America. A masterful synthesis of twentieth-century history and geography, this book offers unprecedented insights into the shaping and reshaping of the United States over the past century.
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v. 4 : pbk ISBN 9780300115284

内容説明

This landmark book, the concluding volume in a magisterial series, presents the story of America's interwoven history and geography from 1915 to 2000. Discussing such developments as the automotive, neotechnic, and communications revolutions, the world wars, urban migration, and regionalism, D.W. Meinig offers unprecedented insights into the reshaping of the United States. "Meinig at his best: he presents a masterly synthesis of the cultural complexity of America, a compelling account of the dramatic but immensely complicated restructuring of its human geography during the twentieth century."-Graeme Wynn, Journal of Historical Geography "This work will shape the way many people view the United States for a long time to come. Essential."-Choice "This splendid work concludes the most ambitious writing project of any American geographer, ever. Global America meets and even exceeds the high standards set by the previous three volumes."-John C. Hudson, Northwestern University

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