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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) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Shaping of America; A Geographical Perspective of 500 Years of History #02: Continential America 1800-1867 by D W Meinig Publisher Comments Continental America offers a rather different way of looking at a period of enormous expansion, development, and crisis in the career of the United States. Although it stands as a discrete, coherent work, it is best understood as a continuation of the... (read more) List Price $46.75 Your price: $17.50 Used - 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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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 Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Arizona Bruce Babbitt brings fresh thought--and fresh air--to questions of how we can build a future we want to live in.<BR>We've all... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Shaping of America; A Geographical Perspective of 500 Years of History #03: Transcontinental America, 1850-1915 by D W Meinig Synopsis In this third volume of his acclaimed series, D. W. Meinig offers a riveting account of the expanding country's development from mid-nineteenth century to the onset of World War I. Beginning with the struggle over where to build the Pacific railway, the... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Visions of Paradise by John Simpson Publisher Comments The American Revolution gave birth not just to a new nation, but to a new landscape. America was paradise to its native inhabitants, while to the colonists, it was an unlimited land of opportunity, a moral and physical wilderness from which they could... (read more) List Price $74.25 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Geography of North America: Environment, Political Economy, and Culture by Susan Wile Hardwick Publisher Comments This book explores the geography of North America, using engaging examples to understand the cultures of Canada, the U.S., and Greenland. Helps readers understand the physical geography and environmental constraints and opportunities that underlie human... (read more) List Price $135.00 Your price: $65.00 Used - Hardcover
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Physical Geography of Wisconsin by Lawrence Martin Publisher Comments The immensely varied topography of Wisconsin provides examples of nearly every important physiographic process and topographic form. In the Driftless Area to the southwest, wind and water have weathered and carved away the... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $47.50 Your price: $6.50 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: $3.48 Used - Trade Paper
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North America a Geographical Mosaic by Frederick W Boal Publisher Comments The multi-layered, complex geography that characterizes the diverse region of North America has been forged by the interaction between man, past and present, and the physical environmental. This book captures the essence of such human and physical... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $18.50 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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California Studies in Critical Human Geography #9: American Empire by Neil Smith Publisher Comments "This is a dazzling and original book, the product of painstaking and meticulous research, artfully conceived and beautifully written. Given the complexity of the account, its breathtaking range, and the number of vitally important issues to which it... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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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 $132.25 Your price: $30.00 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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Historical Maps of North America by Michael Swift Publisher Comments Travel back to a time when North America was largely unexplored and mapmakers could not rely on computers or aerial photographs. Featuring more than one hundred beautifully crafted antique maps and charts, previously available only to researchers, this... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Americas Before and After 1492: Current Geographical Research. Annals of the Ass. of American Geographers, Vol. 82, No. 3, Sept. 1992 by Karl W. Butzer TOC The Americas before and after 1492 : an introduction to current geographical research / Karl W. Butzer -- The pristine myth : the landscape of the Americas in 1492 / William M. Denevan -- Agriculture in North America on the eve of contact / William E... (read more) Your price: $8.95 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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Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau by Ronald C Blakey Publisher Comments Imagine seeing the varied landscapes of the earth as they used to look throughout hundreds of millions of years of earth history. Tropical seas lap on the shores of an Arizona beach. Immense sand dunes shift and swirl in Sahara-like deserts in Utah and... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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