This atlas surveys the history of North America from the first settlers to cross the Bering Straits. It looks at the development of the continent's three nations - Canada, the USA and Mexico - and assesses the current relationship between them, and that of the region to the rest of the world.
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The Penguin Historical Atlas of North America by Eric Homberger
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Part 1 The first peoples: hunters spread across a Continent; first civilizations, Olmec and Maya; Mesoamerica, Toltecs and Aztecs; the native Americans; Indian encounters. Part 2 European intervention: Cortes and the conquest of Mexico; Spanish empire in the west; French empire of the St Lawrence; Britain, Jamestown and Massachusetts; slave trade; imperial rivalries; immigrants. Part 3 Making a nation: American war of independence; towards the Louisiana purchase; Canada to the war of 1812; Mexican struggle for independence; Texas and expansion; canals, railroads and cotton; gold and California; An outrage of American womanhood. Part 4 Spanning a Continent: Civil War 1861 - 1865; British North-American act 1867; Alaska - Seward's folly; the age of Chicago; frontier; an imperial power; skyscraper. Part 5 An urban people: urban life; Mexican revolution; the first World War; the making of Harlem; the industrial Colossus; the new deal and the TVA; tenements. Part 6 The imperial mantle: World War II, the Pacific, the Atlantic; on the road; suburb; the Cold War; rich and poor; Henry Ford; the spread of the American culture.
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GOR008160711
9780140513271
0140513272
The Penguin Historical Atlas of North America by Eric Homberger
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