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This land is your land : the geographic evolution of the United States

Title
This land is your land : the geographic evolution of the United States / Seymour I. Schwartz.
Author
Schwartz, Seymour I., 1928-2020
Publication
New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2000.

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Description
304 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 31 cm
Summary
An account of the mosaic that constitutes the United States, and of the rich variety of names given to its constituent parts.
Subject
  • Geography
  • Geography > United States
  • Historische Geografie
  • United States > Geography
  • United States > Maps
  • United States of America > Geography > [literature] > 2000
  • United States of America > History of cartography > [literature] > 2000
  • United States
  • United States > History > Maps
  • USA
Genre/Form
  • Maps
  • Maps.
  • Cartes géographiques.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-293) and index.
Contents
ch. 1. Earliest European probes -- ch. 2. Early-seventeenth-century sailings and settlements -- ch. 3. Completing the original thirteen colonies -- ch. 4. Away from the Atlantic Coast (1600-1750) -- ch. 5. Britain gains control of the continent -- ch. 6. A nation is born -- ch. 7. Completing the eighteenth century -- ch. 8. The nineteenth century : early expansions and divisions -- ch. 9. Continued population shifts and state development -- ch. 10. Closing the ring -- ch. 11. Development, disruption, and reconstruction (1847-67) -- ch. 12. Completing the nineteenth century -- ch. 13. The twentieth century -- ch. 14. Condensing the chronological circle.
ISBN
  • 0810967154
  • 9780810967151
LCCN
00031320
OCLC
  • ocm43894291
  • 43894291
  • SCSB-1326043
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library