North American Odyssey

Historical Geographies for the Twenty-first Century
Herausgeber: Buckley, Geoffrey L.; Colten, Craig E.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 people, and growing urbanization, this thoughtful text will give students a uniquely geographical way to understand North American history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1056g
• ISBN-13: 9781442215849
• ISBN-10: 1442215844
• Artikelnr.: 40033150

Autorenporträt

Craig E. Colten is the Carl O. Sauer Professor of Geography at Louisiana State University. Geoffrey L. Buckley is Professor of Geography at Ohio University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Craig E. Colten and Geoffrey L. Buckley Part I: Settling and
Resettling the Land Chapter 1: The New Narrative on Native Landscape
Transformations Michael D. Myers and William E. Doolittle Chapter 2: North
America's Colonial European Roots, 1492 to 1867 Jeffrey S. Smith Chapter 3:
African Arrivals and Transformations Andrew Sluyter Part II: Remaking
Society Chapter 4: Reordering the Geography of Indian Country: Historical
Geographies of Removal, Reservations, and Assimilation Steven Silvern
Chapter 5: Labor and New Community Formation in the Twentieth Century Ines
M. Miyares Chapter 6: The Great Migration Joshua Inwood Part III:
Transforming the Land Chapter 7: Making Connections via Roads, Rivers,
Canals, and Rails Karl Raitz Chapter 8: Extracting Wealth from the Earth
and Forest Geoffrey L. Buckley Chapter 9: Redirecting Water: Transforming
Waterways Craig E. Colten Chapter 10: Preserving Lands for Future
Generations: The U. S. Experience Lary M. Dilsaver Chapter 11: Animals and
the American Landscape Robert Wilson Part IV: Shaping the Landscape Chapter
12: "Dividing the Land" Timothy G. Anderson Chapter 13: Science and
Sentiment: The Work of Photography in Nineteenth-Century North America Joan
M. Schwartz Chapter 14: Making Mythic Landscapes Kevin Blake Chapter 15:
The Historical Geography of Racialized Landscapes Derek H. Alderman and E.
Arnold Modlin Jr. Chapter 16: Toward a Gendered Historical Geography of
North America Mona Domosh Chapter 17: Shaping Tourism Yolonda Youngs
Chapter 18: Creating Regional Landscapes and Identities William Wyckoff
Part V: Urbanizing the Land Chapter 19: Making Urban Wealth: The Primacy of
Mercantilism Michael P. Conzen Chapter 20: "If Ever a City Needed the
Definite Plan": Planning Spatial Order for American Cities Edward K. Muller
Chapter 21: Planning and American Urbanization since 1950 Jasper Rubin
Chapter 22: Justice and Equity in the City Christopher G. Boone