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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 people, and growing urbanization, this thoughtful text will give students a uniquely geographical way to understand North American history.
List of contents
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
About the author
Edited by Craig E. Colten and Geoffrey L. Buckley
