North American Odyssey: Historical Geographies for the Twenty-first Century

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This groundbreaking volume offers a fresh approach to conceptualizing the historical geography of North America by taking a thematic rather than a traditional regional perspective. Leading geographers building on current scholarship in the field explore five central themes. The book includes sections that explore early settlement nineteenth- and twentieth-century population movements human transformations of the natural landscape the inscription of human society on the landscape and the urbanization of the continent. With its focus on human-environment interactions the mobility of people and growing urbanization this thoughtful text will give students a uniquely geographical way to understand North American history.