Table of Contents

Part 1 Part I: Introduction
Chapter 2 The North American Past: Retrospect and Prospect
Part 3 Part II: Colonization: 1490s-1770s
Chapter 4 European Encounters: Discovery and Exploration
Chapter 5 The Spanish Borderlands
Chapter 6 France in North America
Chapter 7 The Colonial Origins of Anglo-America
Chapter 8 Colonial America in the Eighteenth Century
Part 9 Part III: Expansion: 1780s-1860s
Chapter 10 The Geographical Dimensions of a New Nation, 1780s-1820s
Chapter 11 Beyond the Appalachians, 1815-1860
Chapter 12 The Northeast and Regional Integration, 1800-1860
Chapter 13 British North America, 1763-1867
Part 14 Part IV: Consolidation: 1860s-1920s
Chapter 15 Settling the Great Plains, 1850-1930
Chapter 16 The Far West, 1840-1920
Chapter 17 Population Growth, Migration and Urbanization, 1860-1920
Chapter 18 The National Integration of Regional Economies, 1860-1920
Chapter 19 The Progress of American Urbanism, 1860-1930
Chapter 20 Realizing the Idea of Canada
Part 21 Part V: Reorganization: 1930s and Onward
Chapter 22 America between the Wars
Chapter 23 The Twentieth Century American City
Chapter 24 The Other America: Changes in Rural America during the Twentieth Century
Chapter 25 Canadian Cities in a North American Context
Part 26 Part VI: Conclusion
Chapter 27 Historical Geography since 1983
Chapters 28 Sources for Recreating the North American Past