Main entry:

Meinig, D. W. (Donald William), 1924-2020.

Title & Author:

The shaping of America : a geographical perspective on 500 years of history / D.W. Meinig.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1986-©2004.

Description:

4 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
v. 1. Atlantic America, 1492-1800 -- List of illustrations and tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- pt. 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-Farican 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 -- pt. 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. Emergency 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.
pt. 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 -- pt. 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? -- Sources of quotations -- Bibliography -- Index.
v. 2. Continental America, 1800-1867 -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- pt. 1. Extension : the creation of a continental empire -- Prologue -- 1. Doubling the national territory : Louisiana -- 2. Pressures on the borders : southward -- 3. Pressures on the borders : northward -- 4. The reach westward : to circa 1830 -- 5. Shoving the Indians out of the way -- 6. Assertion and division : Oregon and the Northern boundary -- 7. Annexation and conquest : Texas and the Hispanic borderlands -- 8. Spanning a continent -- and ocean -- 9. Empire : the geopolitical management of captive peoples -- 10. Continentalism : objectives, modes, visions -- pt. 2. Expansion : the growth of a continental nation -- Prologue -- 1. Filling in the framework : migration westward -- 2. Occupying new ground : colonization, American style -- 3. Planting new societies : New England extended -- 4. Planting new societies : Virginia extended -- 5. Planting new societies : midlands extended -- 6. Planting new societies : the cotton belt and South Carolina extended.
7. Color in the plantings : the Afro-American presence -- 8. Making new pathways : waterways, roads, and rails -- 9. Tying the parts together : national programs -- 10. Creating new centers : cities and systems of cities -- 11. Harnessing new forces : industries an industrial regions -- 12. Cementing the parts together : an American nation -- 13. Morphology : the shape of the United States, 1850s -- pt. 3. Tension : the sundering of a federation -- Prologue -- 1. The shaping of new states -- 2. Expanding the federation -- 3. The idea of separation -- 4. Disintegration -- 5. Geopolitical alternatives -- 6. Conquest and emancipation -- 7. Empire, nation, federation : geopolitical contentions -- pt. 4. Context : the United States in North America circa 1867 -- Prologue -- 1. Continental America -- 2. The northern borderlands -- 3. Hispanic borderlands -- 4. The Afro-American archipelago -- 5. A wider presence -- Sources of quotations -- Bibliography -- Index.
v. 3. Transcontinental America, 1850-1915 -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- pt. 1. Articulation : binding the coasts together -- Prologue -- 1. Forging the iron bond -- pt. 2. Dominion : the emergence of American Wests -- Prologue -- 1. Delineating the New West -- 2. California -- 3. Southern California -- 4. Oregon and the Pacific Northwest -- 5. Zion, Deseret, and Utah -- 6. New Mexico : Hispanic, Indian, Anglo -- 7. The Colorado complex -- 8. The rest of the West -- 9. Indians and empire -- 10. American Wests-American domain -- pt. 3. Consolidation : structuring an American nation -- Prologue -- 1. A re-United States -- 2. New economic regions -- 3. Railroads : the contest for territory -- 4. Populations and peoples -- 5. Systems and symbols -- pt. 4. Spheres : American influence and outreach -- Prologue -- 1. Canada and continentalism -- 2. Mexico and an American Mediterranean -- 3. Hawaii and an American Pacific -- 4. Panama and transcontinental completion -- Sources of quotations -- Bibliography -- Index.
v. 4. Global America, 1915-2000 -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- pt. 1. Technology : mobilization and acceleration -- Prologue -- 1. Mobilization : the automotive revolution -- 2. Mobilization : neotechnic evolution -- 3. Acceleration : on the surface -- 4. Acceleration : in the air -- 5. Acceleration : invisible and instantaneous -- pt. 2. Morphology : migrations and formations -- Prologue -- 1. Populations and policies, 1915-1950s -- 2. Regionalism, 1920s-1950 -- 3. A reconnaissance of regions -- 4. Midcentury morphology -- 5. Altering the federation and internal empire -- 6. Populations and policies, 1950s-1990s -- 7. Some reconfigurations-- 8. Reshaping the nation -- pt. 3. Mission : assertions and impositions -- Prologue -- 1. Assertions : America and Europe -- 2. Impositions : war and interwar, Europe and Asia -- 3. Impositions : Western hemisphere -- 4. Redividing the world -- 5. Impositions and oppositions -- 6. America and the world -- Sources of quotations -- Bibliography -- Index.
Association of American Geographers John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize (volume 4), 2004.

Summary:

Volume one examines how an immense diversity of ethnic and religious groups ultimately created a set of distinct regional societies. Volume two emphasizes the flux, uncertainty, and unpredictablilty of the expansion into continental America, showing how a multitude of individuals confronted complex and problematic issues.

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ISBN:

0300035489 (v. 1)
9780300035483 (v. 1)
0300038828 (v. 1 ; pbk.)
9780300038828 (v. 1 ; pbk.)
0300056583 (v. 2)
9780300056587 (v. 2)
0300062907 (v. 2 ; pbk.)
9780300062908 (v. 2 ; pbk.)
0300075928 (v. 3)
9780300075922 (v. 3)
0300104324 (v. 4)
9780300104325 (v. 4)
0300082908 (v. 3 ; pbk.)
9780300082906 (v. 3 ; pbk.)

Subject:

Historical geography
Ontstaansgeschiedenis.
Geografische aspecten.
Historische Geographie
Géographie humaine
1492-20e siècle (fin)
United States History.
United States Historical geography.
EE. UU. Geografía histórica.
États-Unis Histoire.
États-Unis Géographie historique.
United States
USA Historische Geographie 0 Gesamtdarstellung
USA Geschichte
USA
Etats-Unis
United States Human geographical features to 1985

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 105802
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Copy: v. 2
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