The Making of America’s Culture Regions
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Title......Page 2 Copyright......Page 3 Dedication......Page 4 Brief Content......Page 5 Detailed Content......Page 15 List of Figures and Regional Table......Page 21 List of Maps......Page 23 List of Geographer Spotlights......Page 26 Preface......Page 27 Why Regions?......Page 31 Historical Geography......Page 34 The Natural Environment......Page 39 Native Americans......Page 45 Part I Colonial America......Page 51 Borderlands Ecology......Page 52 Spanish Florida......Page 58 The Southwestern Borderlands......Page 61 The Spanish Impress......Page 66 3 New France......Page 75 Acadia and Canada......Page 76 Louisiana......Page 83 Illinois Country......Page 88 Long Lots......Page 91 The Granite Region......Page 96 Beachheads to Colonies......Page 102 The Puritan Village Myth......Page 108 The New England Large......Page 111 Terrain Overview......Page 118 New Netherland and New Sweden......Page 122 Pennsylvania......Page 127 Pennsylvania Culture Area......Page 133 6 The South......Page 139 Tidewater Chesapeake......Page 140 Mount Vernon......Page 147 Tidewater Carolina......Page 150 The Upper Country......Page 155 Comparative Frontiers......Page 161 Culture Hearths......Page 163 Folk Houses Move West......Page 166 Port Cities......Page 173 Part II The Humid East......Page 177 Appalachian Routes......Page 178 Upland South Attributes......Page 185 The Public Domain and New States......Page 188 Washington, DC......Page 191 9 New England Extended......Page 196 Yankeeland......Page 197 The Western Reserve......Page 203 The Erie Canal......Page 206 The Classical Belt......Page 210 10 The Old Northwest......Page 217 The Black Swamp and the Grand Prairie......Page 218 The Township and Range System......Page 222 Ohio Valley Urban Growth......Page 225 The Corn Belt......Page 232 The Piney Woods......Page 239 “King Cotton”......Page 241 The Plantation......Page 246 The Confederate States of America......Page 249 The Balcones and Caprock Escarpments......Page 256 Mexican Texas (1821–1836)......Page 261 The Republic (1836–1845)......Page 264 Germans and the Hill Country......Page 267 13 The New Northwest......Page 274 Lead, Copper, and Iron Ore......Page 275 A Wheat Frontier......Page 278 Frontier Footsteps......Page 281 White Pine......Page 290 Indian Territory and Oklahoma......Page 294 Square Farms versus Long Lots......Page 304 Corn, Cotton, and Wheat Belts......Page 306 The Pacific Railroad and Time Zones......Page 309 Part III The Dry West......Page 314 Images of the West......Page 315 Mexican New Mexico......Page 319 The Santa Fe Trade......Page 323 Spanish Americans......Page 328 Four Nation-States Compete......Page 335 The Cascade Divide......Page 338 The Oregon Trail......Page 341 The Pacific Northwest......Page 347 Great Basin Setting......Page 352 LDS Origin and Zions......Page 354 Mormon Colonization......Page 358 The Mormon Impress......Page 365 Three Longitudinal Bands......Page 372 Mexican California......Page 374 Gold and the Mines......Page 380 Northern versus Southern California......Page 384 Webb’s Thesis......Page 389 The Cattle Kingdom......Page 394 Farmers and Ranchers......Page 397 The Ogallala Aquifer......Page 404 The West......Page 409 State Capital Centrality......Page 414 The Century of Mass Migration......Page 417 Cities and Suburbs......Page 419 The United States in 1900......Page 424 Culture Regions in 1900......Page 427 Hispanicization......Page 431 Conclusions......Page 434 Bibliography......Page 438 Index......Page 458 About the Author......Page 484
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