Book contents
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume I
- General Introduction: What is America and the World?
- Introduction: What Does America and the World “Mean” before 1825?
- Part I Geographies
- 1 Changing American Geographies
- 2 Maritime Borderlands
- 3 The Americas and the Contested Aquatic World of the Atlantic, Indian, and the Pacific Oceans
- 4 Extractive Industries and the Transformation of American Environments
- Part II People
- Part III Empires
- Part IV Circulation/Connections
- Part V Institutions
- Part VI Revolutions
- Index
1 - Changing American Geographies
from Part I - Geographies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2021
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume I
- General Introduction: What is America and the World?
- Introduction: What Does America and the World “Mean” before 1825?
- Part I Geographies
- 1 Changing American Geographies
- 2 Maritime Borderlands
- 3 The Americas and the Contested Aquatic World of the Atlantic, Indian, and the Pacific Oceans
- 4 Extractive Industries and the Transformation of American Environments
- Part II People
- Part III Empires
- Part IV Circulation/Connections
- Part V Institutions
- Part VI Revolutions
- Index
Summary
Two overarching contexts shaped American geographies during the era of European overseas expansion: the oceanic networks that connected the Americas to the rest of the world and the continental dynamics by which Indigenous and colonial polities contended for land and power in the Americas.
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- The Cambridge History of America and the World , pp. 37 - 59Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022