Geographical inquiry and American historical problems
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Geographical inquiry and American historical problems
Stanford University Press, 1992
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A Stanford University Press classic.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: the practice of geographical history
- 1. The ecological causes of the Virginia mortality crisis, 1607-1624
- 2. Why the Puritans settled in New England: the problematic nature of English colonization in North America, 1580-1700
- 3. Why tobacco stunted the growth of towns and wheat built them into small cities: urbanization south of the Mason-Dixon line, 1650-1790
- 4. Boston, vanguard of the American Revolution
- 5. The industrial Revolution as a response to cheap labor and agricultural seasonality, 1790-1860: a reexamination of the Habakkuk thesis
- 6. To enslave or not to enslave: crop seasonality, labor choice, and the urgency of the Civil War
- 7. The myth of the southern soil miner|: macrohistory, agricultural innovation, and environmental change
- 8. A tale of two cities: the ecological basis of the threefold population differential in the Chicago and mobile urban systems, circa 1860
- 9. The split geographical personality of Americna labor: labor power and modernization in the Gilded Age
- 10. The last great chance for an American working class: spatial lessons of the general strike and the Haymarket riot of early May 1886
- 11. Spoiling the 'roast beef and apple pie' version of American exceptionalism: the agricultural-geographic origins of working-class division and the failure of American socialism
- 12. The periodic structure of the American past: rhythms, phases, and geograph conditions
- Index.
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