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North American Odyssey .................18523$ $$FM 01-30-1408:31:22 PS PAGEi .................18523$ $$FM 01-30-1408:31:23 PS PAGEii North American Odyssey Historical Geographies for the Twenty-first Century Edited by Craig E. Colten and Geoffrey L. Buckley ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD Lanham•Boulder•NewYork•Toronto•Plymouth,UK .................18523$ $$FM 01-30-1408:31:23 PS PAGEiii PublishedbyRowman&Littlefield 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com 10ThornburyRoad,PlymouthPL67PP,UnitedKingdom Copyright(cid:2)2014byRowman&Littlefield Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData NorthAmericanodyssey:historicalgeographiesforthetwenty-firstcentury/editedby CraigE.ColtenandGeoffreyL.Buckley. pages;cm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-4422-1584-9(cloth:alk.paper)—ISBN978-1-4422-1585-6(pbk.:alk.paper)— ISBN978-1-4422-1586-3(electronic)1.NorthAmerica—Historicalgeography. I.Colten, CraigE.II.Buckley,GeoffreyL.,1965– E40.5.N726 2014 911(cid:2).73—dc23 2013048468 (cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:4) ThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciences—PermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica .................18523$ $$FM 01-30-1408:31:24 PS PAGEiv To our mentors who introduced us to this vast panorama that is historical geography, Don Meinig, Sam Hilliard, Bob Mitchell, and Paul Groves .................18523$ $$FM 01-30-1408:31:24 PS PAGEv .................18523$ $$FM 01-30-1408:31:24 PS PAGEvi Contents ListofFigures,Table,andTextboxes xi Introduction 1 CraigE.ColtenandGeoffreyL.Buckley PART I. SETTLING AND RESETTLING THE LAND 1 The New Narrative on Native Landscape Transformations 9 Michael D. Myers and William E. Doolittle 2 North America’s Colonial European Roots, 1492 to 1867 27 Jeffrey S. Smith 3 African Arrivals and Transformations 49 Andrew Sluyter PART II. REMAKING SOCIETY 4 Reordering the Geography of Indian Country: Historical Geographies of Removal, Reservations, and Assimilation 69 Steven Silvern 5 Labor and New Community Formation in the Twentieth Century 89 Ines M. Miyares 6 The Great Migration 103 Joshua Inwood vii .................18523$ CNTS 01-30-1408:31:26 PS PAGEvii viii CONTENTS PART III. TRANSFORMING THE LAND 7 Making Connections via Roads, Rivers, Canals, and Rails 117 Karl Raitz 8 Extracting Wealth from the Earth and Forest 139 Geoffrey L. Buckley 9 Redirecting Water: Transforming Waterways 157 Craig E. Colten 10 Preserving Lands for Future Generations: The U.S. Experience 177 Lary M. Dilsaver 11 Animals and the American Landscape 195 Robert Wilson PART IV. SHAPING THE LANDSCAPE 12 ‘‘Dividing the Land’’ 209 Timothy G. Anderson 13 Science and Sentiment: The Work of Photography in Nineteenth- Century North America 227 Joan M. Schwartz 14 Making Mythic Landscapes 251 Kevin Blake 15 The Historical Geography of Racialized Landscapes 273 Derek H. Alderman and E. Arnold Modlin Jr. 16 Toward a Gendered Historical Geography of North America 291 Mona Domosh 17 Shaping Tourism 309 Yolonda Youngs 18 Creating Regional Landscapes and Identities 335 William Wyckoff PART V. URBANIZING THE LAND 19 Making Urban Wealth: The Primacy of Mercantilism 361 Michael P. Conzen .................18523$ CNTS 01-30-1408:31:27 PS PAGEviii CONTENTS ix 20 ‘‘If Ever a City Needed the Definite Plan’’: Planning Spatial Order for American Cities 377 Edward K. Muller 21 Planning and American Urbanization since 1950 395 Jasper Rubin 22 Justice and Equity in the City 413 Christopher G. Boone Index 429 About the Contributors 441 .................18523$ CNTS 01-30-1408:31:28 PS PAGEix

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