The Shaping Of America
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Author | : D. W. Meinig |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 483 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300173946 |
This landmark book, the concluding volume of D. W. Meinig’s magisterial series The Shaping of America, presents the story of America’s interwoven history and geography from 1915 to 2000. The author describes decades of enormous national growth and change in his characteristic engaging style, and through more than seventy original maps he ingeniously depicts diverse twentieth-century trends and developments. The book addresses the expanding nation’s progress in terms of the automotive revolution; neotechnic evolution; access to air travel; growth of instantaneous forms of communication, including telephones, television, and the Internet; and such political events as World War II. Meinig relates these developments to social and geographic trends, among them patterns of urban migration, regionalism, metropolitanization, the beginnings of the urban megalopolis, shifts in ethnic and religious populations, and, on a more global scale, transformations in America’s connections with Europe, Asia, and Latin America. A masterful synthesis of twentieth-century history and geography, this book offers unprecedented insights into the shaping and reshaping of the United States over the past century.
Author | : Donald William Meinig |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Human geography |
ISBN | : 9780300075922 |
This volume on America's development from the mid-19th century to 1915 begins with the struggle over where to build the Pacific railway. Meinig portrays the settlement of the American West, examines the South as an imperial province, and considers America's pressures upon Canada and Mexico.
Author | : Page Smith |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 906 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This in-depth narrative history, rich with firsthand views of the first half-century of America's independence, provides insightful accounts of the political, religious, artistic and educational developments of the times.
Author | : John Warwick Montgomery |
Publisher | : New Reformation Publications |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2018-01-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1945500468 |
A critique of American ideas. The first half of the book deals with how America became the nation that it is; the second half suggests how it could become the nation that it should be. "Every Christian interested in the welfare of his or her country should read this excellent volume." (Robert G. Clouse, Department of History, Indiana State University)
Author | : Donald William Meinig |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 9789998000964 |
Author | : Donald William Meinig |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Page Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
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Author | : Vincent P. De Santis |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2000-01-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780882959535 |
In the years between the Civil War and the First World War, Americans lived in a nation quite different from that of their parents, the values of a burgeoning industrial and urban society transforming traditional notions of democracy. At the same time, other far-reaching developments--the eclipsing of countryside and farm by city and factory, substantial changes in communications and transportation, revolutionary innovations in agriculture, a large wave of immigration, the rise of labour unions, and the emergence of the United States as a world power--gave these years a distinctive character and established the foundations of modern America. Revised to reflect the latest scholarship on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, this classic text remains a great choice as a core text for courses in the Gilded Age or as a highly useful supplement for the US history survey.
Author | : Lauric Henneton |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2016-04-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004314741 |
Fear and the Shaping of Early American Societies is the first collection of essays to argue that fear permeated the colonial societies of 17th- and 18th-century America and to analyse its impact on the political decision-making processes from a variety of angles and locations. Indeed, the thirteen essays range from Canada to the Chesapeake, from New England to the Caribbean and from the Carolina Backcountry to Dutch Brazil. This volume assesses the typically American nature of fear factors and the responses they elicited in a transatlantic context. The essays further explore how the European colonists handled such challenges as Indian conspiracies, slave revolts, famine, “popery” and tyranny as well as werewolves and a dragon to build cohesive societies far from the metropolis. Contributors are: Sarah Barber, Benjamin Carp, Leslie Choquette, Anne-Claire Faucquez, Lauric Henneton, Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber, Susanne Lachenicht, Bertie Mandelblatt, Mark Meuwese, L. H. Roper, David L. Smith, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Christopher Vernon, and David Voorhees.
Author | : Michael Barone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 9780029018620 |
Combining his proven mastery of political facts and trends with a rich narrative, Barone tells the story of how the country of our parents was transformed through each political era into the country as we know it today.