The penguin historical atlas of North America
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The penguin historical atlas of North America
（Penguin books）
Penguin, 1995
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This atlas surveys the history of North America from the first settlers to cross the Bering Straits. It looks at the development of the continent's three nations - Canada, the USA and Mexico - and assesses the current relationship between them, and that of the region to the rest of the world.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The first peoples: hunters spread across a Continent
- first civilizations, Olmec and Maya
- Mesoamerica, Toltecs and Aztecs
- the native Americans
- Indian encounters. Part 2 European intervention: Cortes and the conquest of Mexico
- Spanish empire in the west
- French empire of the St Lawrence
- Britain, Jamestown and Massachusetts
- slave trade
- imperial rivalries
- immigrants. Part 3 Making a nation: American war of independence
- towards the Louisiana purchase
- Canada to the war of 1812
- Mexican struggle for independence
- Texas and expansion
- canals, railroads and cotton
- gold and California
- "An outrage of American womanhood". Part 4 Spanning a Continent: Civil War 1861 - 1865
- British North-American act 1867
- Alaska - Seward's folly
- the age of Chicago
- frontier
- an imperial power
- skyscraper. Part 5 An urban people: urban life
- Mexican revolution
- the first World War
- the making of Harlem
- the industrial Colossus
- the new deal and the TVA
- tenements. Part 6 The imperial mantle: World War II, the Pacific, the Atlantic
- on the road
- suburb
- the Cold War
- rich and poor
- Henry Ford
- the spread of the American culture.
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