This outstanding text provides students with the essential foundation in the historical geography of the United States. Distinguished scholar Richard L. Nostrand skillfully synthesizes decades of historical geography research in an engaging and thought-provoking overview. His regional geography framework emphasizes the three themes central to cultural geography—cultural ecology, cultural diffusion, and cultural landscape—to explain the formation and change of culture regions in the United States. He shows convincingly that regions are a valuable pedagogical device for developing students’ understanding of place and context.
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The Making of America's Culture Regions
This outstanding text provides students with the essential foundation in the historical geography of the United States. Distinguished scholar Richard L. Nostrand skillfully synthesizes decades of historical geography research in an engaging and thought-provoking overview. His regional geography framework emphasizes the three themes central to cultural geography—cultural ecology, cultural diffusion, and cultural landscape—to explain the formation and change of culture regions in the United States. He shows convincingly that regions are a valuable pedagogical device for developing students’ understanding of place and context.
This outstanding text provides students with the essential foundation in the historical geography of the United States. Distinguished scholar Richard L. Nostrand skillfully synthesizes decades of historical geography research in an engaging and thought-provoking overview. His regional geography framework emphasizes the three themes central to cultural geography—cultural ecology, cultural diffusion, and cultural landscape—to explain the formation and change of culture regions in the United States. He shows convincingly that regions are a valuable pedagogical device for developing students’ understanding of place and context.
Richard L. Nostrand is David Ross Boyd Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of Oklahoma.
Table of Contents
Preface Chapter 1: Overview Part I: Colonial America Chapter 2: The Spanish Borderlands Chapter 3: New France Chapter 4: New England Chapter 5: The Middle Colonies Chapter 6: The South Chapter 7: Colonial America Part II: The Humid East Chapter 8: The Upland South Chapter 9: New England Extended Chapter 10: The Old Northwest Chapter 11: The Lowland South Chapter 12: Texas Chapter 13: The New Northwest Chapter 14: The Humid East Part III: The Dry West Chapter 15: Spanish Americans and New Mexico Chapter 16: Oregon Country Chapter 17: Mormons and the Great Basin Chapter 18: California Chapter 19: The Great Plains Chapter 20: The Dry West Chapter 21: In Perspective Bibliography