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The Shaping of America
A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Volume 1: Atlantic America 1492-1800
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The Shaping of America
A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Volume 1: Atlantic America 1492-1800
About this book
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 groupsāEuropeans, Africans, American Indiansāultimately 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.
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Table of contents
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PART ONE OUTREACH: THE CREATION OF AN ATLANTIC WORLD
- Prologue
- 1. America as a Continuation
- 2. Iberian Initiatives
- 3. The Creation of New Spain
- 4. The Luso-African Contribution
- 5. Initiatives in the North and Huguenot Enterprise
- 6. The Emergence of the English
- 7. Implantations from Northwest Europe
- 8. Generalizations: European Source Regions
- 9. Generalizations: Sectors and Circuits of the Atlantic World
- 10. Generalizations: Geographic Models of Interaction
- PART TWO : IMPLANTATIONS : THE CREATION OF AMERICAN DIVERSITY
- Prologue
- 1. Peoples and Places
- 2. Northern Coasts: Beginnings
- 3. New England
- 4. Northern Entryways: The St. Lawrence
- 5. Northern Entryways: Hudson Bay
- 6. Northern Entryways: The Hudson River
- 7. Northern Entryways: The Delaware
- 8. Pennsylvania
- 9. Emergence of Greater Virginia
- 10. Tropical Islands
- 11. Carolina and the Carolinas
- 12. Florida
- 13. Louisiana
- 14. Texas and the Lower Rio Grande
- 15. Encounter and Change: Europeans and Indians
- 16. Migration and Change: Europeans Overseas
- 17. Enslavement and Change: Africans in America
- 18. Defining Areas
- 19. The Europeanized Area: Populations and Regional Societies, circa 1750
- PART THREE: REORGANIZATIONS: THE CREATION OF AN AMERICAN MATRIX
- Prologue
- 1. A Geographical Transect of the Atlantic World
- 2. The Great War and Its Alterations of Empires
- 3. Reorganization: Northern America
- 4. Reorganization: Tropical America
- 5. Reorganization: Interior America
- 6. Expansions, 1750-1775
- 7. Divergence
- 8. Disruption
- 9. Reorganization: British North America
- 10. Destabilization: Tropical America
- 11. Unification: Forming the United States
- 12. Emergence of a Federal Nation
- 13. Generalizations: The Disintegration of Empires
- 14. Generalizations: The Problems of Federations
- 15. Generalizations: Nation-building
- 16. Generalizations: Expansionism, American-style
- PART FOUR : CONTEXT: THE UNITED STATES, CIRCA 1800
- Prologue
- 1. The United States in North America
- 2. The United States and Europe
- 3. E Pluribus Unum, in Uno Plures?
- Sources of Quotations
- Bibliography
- INDEX