European Settlement and Development in North America / James R. Gibson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gibson, James R., editor.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clark, Andrew Hill, 1911-1975.

Clark, Andrew Hill.

United States--Historical geography.

United States.

Canada--Historical geography.

Canada.

United States--Colonization.

Canada--Colonization.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Andrew Hill Clark (1911-1975) was responsible for much of the recent rise of historical geography in North America. The focus on his research was the opening of New World lands by European peoples, and this North American experience is the subject of this collection of essays written by eight of Clark's students. They examine the role of a new physical and economic environment - particularly abundant and cheap land - in the settlement of New France, the cultural and physical problems that conditioned Russian America, the transformation of cultural regionalism in the eastern United States between the late colonial seaboard and the early republican interior, the changing economic geography of rice farming on the antebellum Southern seaboard, the interrelationships of the European and Indian economies in the pre-conquest fur trade of Canada, differential acculturation and ethnic territoriality among three immigrant groups in Kansas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the development in England and the United States of similar social geographic images of the Victorian city, and the erosion of a sense of place and community by possessive individualism in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania. The essays are preceded by an appreciation of Clark as an historical geographer written by D.W. Meinig and are brought together in an epilogue by John Warkentin. The work is an unusually consistent Festchrift which should appeal to all interested in the patterns of North American settlement.

Contents:

Meinig, D.W. Prologue.

Harris, R.C. The extension of France into rural Canada.

Gibson, J.R. Old Russia in the New World.

Mitchell, R.D. The formation of early American cultural regions.

Hilliard, S.B. Antebellum tidewater rice culture in South Carolina and Georgia.

Ray, A.J. The Hudson's Bay Company fur trade in the eighteenth century.

McQuillan, D.A. Territory and ethnic identity.

Ward, D. The early Victorian city in England and America.

Lemon, J.T. The weakness of place and community in early Pennsylvania.

Warkentin, J. Epilogue.

Andrew Hill Clark and his work.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019)

ISBN:

9781487597528

1487597525

9781487595814

1487595816

OCLC:

1091660149