historical geographies for the twenty-first century /
edited by Craig E. Colten and Geoffrey L. Buckley.
Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield,
2014.
1 online resource (1 volume)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover -- frontmatter -- contents -- figures -- introduction -- part I -- chapter 1 -- chapter 2 -- chapter 3 -- part II -- chapter 4 -- chapter 5 -- chapter 6 -- part III -- chapter 7 -- chapter 8 -- chapter 9 -- chapter 10 -- chapter 11 -- part IV -- chapter 12 -- chapter 13 -- chapter 14 -- chapter 15 -- chapter 16 -- chapter 17 -- chapter 18 -- part V -- chapter 19 -- chapter 20 -- chapter 21 -- chapter 22 -- index -- contributors.
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This groundbreaking volume offers a fresh approach to conceptualizing the historical geography of North America by taking a thematic rather than a traditional regional perspective. Leading geographers, building on current scholarship in the field, explore five central themes. The book includes sections that explore early settlement, nineteenth- and twentieth-century population movements, human transformations of the natural landscape, the inscription of human society on the landscape, and the urbanization of the continent. With its focus on human-environment interactions, the mobility of peopl.