The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History: Volume 4: Global America 1915 2000

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This landmark book the concluding volume of D. W. Meinigs magisterial series The Shaping of America presents the story of Americas 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 nations 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 Americas 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.