| Description |
1 atlas (280 p.) : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 35 cm. |
| Note |
"First published in 2006 by Douglas & McIntyre, Ltd. ... Vancouver, BC ..."--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-271) and index. |
| Contents |
The first peoples -- Cities of gold, cities of mud -- A French claim to America -- The first English settlement -- A new kind of Englishman -- A river runs through it -- Colonial America -- A French empire in America -- Across the mountain barrier -- The end of the French empire -- Indians and an advancing frontier -- Lines in a wilderness -- Spanish America -- The last days of colonial America -- The shot heard round the world -- Defining America -- America independent -- A man and a brother -- A capital on the Potomac -- Seas where they ought not to be -- Voyages to the Northwest -- Across a new America -- Finding routes West -- Indian maps -- Americae Pars -- The rockets' red glare -- The decline of Spain -- A trail of tears -- Populating a heartland -- Remember the Alamo -- The trail West -- A northern boundary complete -- War with Mexico -- Blackrobe's treaty -- New Amsterdam, New York -- The great coastal survey -- Steam and iron rails -- Surveys for a Pacific railroad -- A house divided -- The transcontinental link -- Chicagou, Chicago -- I will fight no more forever -- Surveys for science -- LA: from pueblo to Suburbia -- The art of the bird's-eye -- A gilded age -- Facilitators of a modern age -- American Alaska -- American Aloha -- An American empire -- A world safe for democracy -- Boom, bust, and a New Deal -- Good roads everywhere -- America takes to the skies -- Pictorial maps -- A day of infamy -- Cold and other wars. |
| Subject |
United States -- Historical geography -- Maps.
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| Added Author |
University of California Press.
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| ISBN |
0520250362 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780520250369 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 296499684 |
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YDXCP 2453789 |
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AU@ 000040631442 |
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AU@ 000043357373 |
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