Making of America''s Culture Regions

This outstanding text provides students with the essential foundation to understand the historical geography of the United States. Richard L. Nostrand's regional geography framework emphasizes the three themes central to cultural geography to explain the formation and change of culture regions in the United States.

List of contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Overview
Part I: Colonial America
Chapter 2: The Spanish Borderlands
Chapter 3: New France
Chapter 4: New England
Chapter 5: The Middle Colonies
Chapter 6: The South
Chapter 7: Colonial America
Part II: The Humid East
Chapter 8: The Upland South
Chapter 9: New England Extended
Chapter 10: The Old Northwest
Chapter 11: The Lowland South
Chapter 12: Texas
Chapter 13: The New Northwest
Chapter 14: The Humid East
Part III: The Dry West
Chapter 15: Spanish Americans and New Mexico
Chapter 16: Oregon Country
Chapter 17: Mormons and the Great Basin
Chapter 18: California
Chapter 19: The Great Plains
Chapter 20: The Dry West
Chapter 21: In Perspective
Bibliography

About the author

By Richard L. Nostrand

Summary

This outstanding text provides students with the essential foundation to understand the historical geography of the United States. Richard L. Nostrand’s regional geography framework emphasizes the three themes central to cultural geography to explain the formation and change of culture regions in the United States.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Nostrand, Richard L Nostrand, Richard L. Nostrand, Nostrand Richard L.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781538103968
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-0396-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / General, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Earth Sciences, Human Geography, cultural geography;historical geography