The shaping of America : a geographical perspective on 500 years of history. Vol. 2, Continental America, 1800-1867

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Cover The Shaping of America: Volume 1 CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS TABLES PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PART ONE— OUTREACH: THE CREATION OF AN ATLANTIC WORLD Prologue 1— America as a Continuation A General Formulation 2— Iberian Initiatives 3— The Creation of New Spain 4— The Luso-African Contribution 5— Initiatives in the North and Huguenot Enterprise 6— The Emergence of the English 7— Implantations from Northwest Europe 8— Generalizations: European Source Regions 9— Generalizations: Sectors and Circuits of the Atlantic World 10— Generalizations: Geographic Models of Interaction PART TWO— IMPLANTATIONS: THE CREATION OF AMERICAN DIVERSITY Prologue 1— Peoples and Places European Diversity Native Americans Africans Areas 2— Northern Coasts: Beginnings 3— New England Emergence of New England Greater New England 4— Northern Entryways: The St. Lawrence 5— Northern Entryways: Hudson Bay 6— Northern Entryways: The Hudson River 7— Northern Entryways: The Delaware 8— Pennsylvania 9— Emergence of Greater Virginia Chesapeake Bay: Early Virginia Chesapeake Bay: Early Maryland Greater Virginia 10— Tropical Islands 11— Carolina and the Carolinas 12— Florida 13— Louisiana 14— Texas and the Lower Rio Grande 15— Encounter and Change: Europeans and Indians 16— Migration and Change: Europeans Overseas 17— Enslavement and Change: Africans in America 18— Defining Areas Partitioning the Continent Frameworks for Local Government Patterning the Countryside 19— The Europeanized Area: Populations and Regional Societies, Circa 1750 PART THREE— REORGANIZATIONS: THE CREATION OF AN AMERICAN MATRIX Prologue 1— A Geographical Transect of the Atlantic World 2— The Great War and Its Alterations of Empires 3— Reorganization: Northern America 4— Reorganization: Tropical America 5— Reorganization: Interior America 6— Expansions, 1750–1775 7— Divergence 8— Disruption 9— Reorganization: British North America 10— Destabilization: Tropical America 11— Unification: Forming the United States 12— Emergence of a Federal Nation 13— Generalizations: The Disintegration of Empires A Model of Empire The Pattern of the British Empire The Process of Disintegration 14— Generalizations: The Problems of Federations 15— Generalizations: Nation-Building 16— Generalizations: Expansionism, American-Style PART FOUR— CONTEXT: THE UNITED STATES, CIRCA 1800 Prologue 1— The United States in North America 2— The United States and Europe 3— E Pluribus Unum , In Uno Plures? SOURCES OF QUOTATIONS Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four BIBLIOGRAPHY General Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four INDEX