The shaping of America. Volume 1, Atlantic America, 1492-1800 : [electronic resource] a geographical perspective on 500 years of history / D.W. Meinig.
1986
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Title
The shaping of America. Volume 1, Atlantic America, 1492-1800 : [electronic resource] a geographical perspective on 500 years of history / D.W. Meinig.
Published
New Haven ; London : [Yale University Press], [1986]
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©1986
Description
1 online resource (xxii, 500 pages) : illustrations, maps, 1 facsimile
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Summary
This study discusses how an immense diversity of ethnic and religious groups became sorted into a set of distinct regional societies in North America.
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Map on lining papers.
Map on lining papers.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-479) and index.
Contents
List of illustrations and tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1. 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 2. 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 3. 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 4. 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?
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1. 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 2. 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 3. 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 4. 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?
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