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How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein Publisher Comments Why does Oklahoma have that panhandle? Did someone make a mistake? We are so familiar with the map of the United States that our state borders seem as much a part of nature as mountains and rivers. Even the oddities — the entire state of... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper 
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Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States That Never Made It by Michael Trinklein Publisher Comments Everyone knows the fifty nifty united states—but what about the hundreds of other statehood proposals that never came to pass? Lost States is a tribute to such great unrealized dreams as West Florida, Texlahoma, Montezuma, Rough and Ready, and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Who Owns America?: Social Conflict over Property Rights by Harvey M. Jacobs Publisher Comments Land ownership by individual citizens is a cornerstone of American heritage and a centerpiece of the American dream. Thomas Jefferson called it the key to our success as a democracy. Yet the question of who owns America not only remains unanswered but is... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $14.16 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A Population History of North America by Michael R Haines Publisher Comments Professors Haines and Steckel bring together leading scholars to present an expansive population history of North America from pre-Columbian times to the present. Covering the populations of Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean, including... (read more) List Price $133.75 Your price: $30.00 Used - Hardcover
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Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America by Bruce Babbitt Publisher Comments In this brilliant, gracefully written, and important new book, former... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Shaping of America: Global America, 1915-2000 by Donald William Meinig Publisher Comments This study discusses how an immense diversity of ethnic and religious groups became sorted into a set of distinct regional societies in North... (read more) Your price: $55.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines by Mark Stein Publisher Comments Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans, and what does that have to do with Rhode Island? Why did Augustine Herman take ten years to complete the map that established Delaware? How did Rocky Mountain rogues help create the state of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History: Volume 1, Atlantic America, 1492-1800 by D. W. Meinig Publisher Comments This entirely fresh interpretation of American history by a renowned historical geographer is the first in a projected threevolume series. Meinig here focuses on colonial America, examining how an immense diversity of ethnic and religious groups... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler Publisher Comments In this "eminently relevant and important book" (Library Journal), the author traces the evolution of America's landscape, where every place looks like no place in particular, and where accommodating the automobile jeopardizes the individual and the... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mountainous West: Explorations in Historical Geography by William Wyckoff Publisher Comments Traditional interpretations of the American West have concentrated on the importance of its aridity to the regions cultural evolution and development. But the West is marked by a second fact of physical geography that distinguished it (from the... (read more) List Price $40.25 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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La Gran Linea: Mapping the United States - Mexico Boundary, 1849-1857 by Paula Rebert Publisher Comments The Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo, which officially ended the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, cost Mexico half its territory, while the United States gained land that became California, Nevada, Utah, Texas, and parts of Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Everyday Geography of the United States: A Lively Look at the Land, Climate, People & History of the 50 States by Barbara Fifer Publisher Comments This fact-filled, accessible guide - packed with maps, quizzes, statistics, and information of all kinds, is dispensable, up-to-date references for all ages. In the tradition of Kenneth C. Davis's best selling Don't know Much About... series, Everyday... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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Shaping of America; A Geographical Perspective of 500 Years of History #02: Continential America 1800-1867 by D W Meinig Synopsis Meinig here focuses on colonial America, examining how an immense diversity of ethnic and religious groups - Europeans, Africans, American Indians - ultimately created a set of distinct regional societies.... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $30.00 Used - Hardcover
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Canadian Oxford School Atlas by Quentin H Stanford List Price $29.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Culture of Nature: North American Landscapes from Disney to the Exxon Valdez by Alexander Wilson Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-325) and index.... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Who Owns America?: Social Conflict Over Property Rights by Harvey Jacobs Synopsis Land ownership by individual citizens is a cornerstone of American heritage and a centerpiece of the American dream. Thomas Jefferson called it the key to our success as a democracy. Yet the question of who owns America not only remains unanswered but... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Readings in the Geography of North America by Geographical Review Your price: $3.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Cartography of North America by Pierluigi Portinaro Your price: $5.98 Used - Hardcover
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Beyond Geography the Western Spirit by Frederick Turner List Price $10.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Everyday Day Geography of the United Sta by Barbara Fifer Your price: $3.95 Used - Book Club Hardcover
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