Shaping of America V 1 – A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History (Paper): A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Volume 1: Atlantic America 1492-1800: 01 - Softcover

Meinig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300038828 ISBN 13: 9780300038828

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1988

Synopsis

[ Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Volume 1: Atlantic America 1492-1800 Shaping of America; A Geographical Perspective of 500 Years of History (Paperback) By ( Author ) Jul-1988 Paperback

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Product Description:

This study discusses how an immense diversity of ethnic and religious groups became sorted into a set of distinct regional societies in North America.

Review:

"The author of Atlantic America and Continental America gives us another extraordinary book, this one about the impact of the acquisition of a western empire upon the U.S. and how railways 'a space-conquering instrument of revolutionary possibilities' helped to reknit the nation, fractured by Civil War, back together again...In characteristically powerful prose, Meinig offers a major retelling of the nation's emergence to world power." Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "The doyen of North American historical geography, Meinig offers a distinctive interpretation that depends much on his literary skill, spatial imagination, and flair for profound simplification...[His] arguments are sustained by [numerous] maps and...illustrations, which act as didactic devices for Meinig's insightful analysis." Choice

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0300038828
• ISBN 13: 9780300038828
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 526