A Geographical History Of United States City Systems

Author : Samuel Otterstrom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780773465213
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Geographical History of United States City-systems written by Samuel Otterstrom and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book ties the settlement geography and history of specific city-systems together in a unified framework. The process of population concentration and dispersion within each city-system is explained using a general model that allows particular interconnections of geography and history to be explored. Preface; Acknowledgements; We would like to dedicate this work to the late Carville Earle whose teaching and writings on geographical history are the inspiration for this work. We would also like to acknowledge our families, our friends, and this beautiful nation, whose geography fascinates us, and whose history enlivens us.

Author : Allan Pred
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674930919
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Growth and City Systems in the United States, 1840-1860 written by Allan Pred and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major new work of urban geography, Allan Pred interprets the process by which major cities grew and the entire city-system of the United States developed during the antebellum decades. The book focuses on the availability and distribution of crucial economic information. For as cities developed, this information helped determine the new urban areas in which business opportunities could be exploited and productive innovations implemented. Pred places this original approach to urbanization in the context of earlier, more conventional studies, and he supports his view by a wealth of evidence regarding the flow of commodities between major cities. He also draws on an analysis of newspaper circulation, postal services, business travel, and telegraph usage. Pred's book goes far beyond the usual "biographies" of individual cities or the specialized studies of urban life. It offers a large and fascinating view of the way an entire city-system was put together and made to function. Indeed, by providing the first full account of these two decades of American urbanization, Pred has supplied a vital and hitherto missing link in the history of the United States.

Author : John Heppen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0739140981
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geography, History, and the American Political Economy written by John Heppen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-08-16 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection takes on the call issued by reviewers of The American Way for a critical application of Carville Earle's framework to more geographical examples of political and economic shifts in America's past. The essays illustrate changes in U.S. settlement, development, and political structure through the lens of the restructuring of the American economy and society over approximately fifty year cycles of crisis and recovery. They demonstrate the extension of American's sphere of influence outside of the United States as a larger scalar shift, and they underscore the utility of geography in answering very local questions concerning questions of poorly documented settlement histories. Focusing on the geographic responses to periodic cycles of crisis and recovery and the more general underlying intertwining of geography and history, Geography, History, and the American Political Economy is an incisive demonstration of how the constant restructuring of American politics and economy occurs within spatial and historical constructs.

Author : Daniel Berkowitz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691136041
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of a Nation written by Daniel Berkowitz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book also examines the effects of early legal systems.

Author : Roger Auch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Growth in American Cities written by Roger Auch and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elaine Chan
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780529252
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative Inquirers in the Midst of Meaning-Making written by Elaine Chan and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates interim narrative field texts of identity as teacher educator stories and demonstrates how researchers utilize common places of temporality, sociality, and place in analyzing narratives. This title describes conceptualizations of narrative research processes, bringing forward narrative tools and methods of layering narratives.

Author : William Wyckoff
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300071184
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating Colorado written by William Wyckoff and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sprawling Piedmont cities, ghost towns on the plains, earth-toned placitas set against the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, mining camps transformed into ski resorts--these are some of the diverse regions in Colorado explored in this fascinating book. Historical geographer William Wyckoff traces the evolution of the state during its formative years from 1860 to 1940, chronicling its changing cultural landscapes, social communities, and connections to a larger America and showing that Colorado has exemplified the unfolding of a complex western environment. Wyckoff discusses how nature, capitalism, a growing federal political presence, and national cultural influences came together to produce a new human geography in Colorado. He explains the ways in which the state's distinctive settlement geographies each took on a special character that persists to the present. He leads the reader through the transformation of the state from wilderness to a distinct region capable of accommodating the diverse needs of ranchers, miners, merchants, farmers, and city dwellers. And he describes how a state created out of cartographic necessity has been given uniqueness and meaning by the people who live there.

Author : Georgiĭ Mikhaĭlovich Lappo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847675685
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Geography in the Soviet Union and the United States written by Georgiĭ Mikhaĭlovich Lappo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1992 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This work provides a solid foundation for understanding the evolution of American cities and urban systems and a base around which to structure the theoretical generalizations and models of later generations.' -s SLAVIC REVIEW

Author : Allan Pred
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351594168
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City-systems in Advanced Economies written by Allan Pred and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1977. This book provides answers to two fundamental and interrelated questions about the modern city. First, what are the processes underlying the past and present growth of ‘post-industrial’ metropolitan complexes and the economically advanced city-systems to which they belong? Second, what are the implications of on-going growth for efforts to reduce interregional inequalities of employment opportunity? The first section of the book introduces the basic concepts such as the properties of systems of cities. It then provides an analysis of their growth in advanced economies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and looks to further possibilities.

Author : William Guthrie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1104 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New System of Modern Geography, Or, A Geographical, Historical and Commercial Geography written by William Guthrie and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: