Andrew Hill Clark (1911-1975) was responsible for much of the
recent rise of historical geography in North America. The focus on
his research was the opening of New World lands by European
peoples, and this North American experience is the subject of this
collection of essays written by eight of Clark's students. They
examine the role of a new physical and economic environment -
particularly abundant and cheap land - in the settlement of New
France, the cultural and physical problems that conditioned Russian
America, the transformation of cultural regionalism in the eastern
United States between the late colonial seaboard and the early
republican interior, the changing economic geography of rice
farming on the antebellum Southern seaboard, the interrelationships
of the European and Indian economies in the pre-conquest fur trade
of Canada, differential acculturation and ethnic territoriality
among three immigrant groups in Kansas in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries, the development in England and the
United States of similar social geographic images of the Victorian
city, and the erosion of a sense of place and community by
possessive individualism in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania. The
essays are preceded by an appreciation of Clark as an historical
geographer written by D.W. Meinig and are brought together in an
epilogue by John Warkentin. The work is an unusually consistent
Festchrift which should appeal to all interested in the patterns of
North American settlement.
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