THE AMERICAN NATIONS By WALLACE W. ATWOOD and HELEN GOSS THOMAS
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GINN AND COMPANY 1954 str. 386, 447 zdjęć w tekście, wiele map, stan bdb- (ślady używania, nieaktualne pieczątki)
Contents
HOW EUROPE WON A NEW WORLD
News That Would Have Made Headlines
The First Americans
The Twelfth of Octoher, 1492
After Columbus
From Colonies to Free Nations
THE UNITED STATES
The Land That Is Ours
1. A Large Country and a Rich One
2. Weather and Climate
3. "America the Beautiful"
4. The Mountains of Our Country
5. Glimpses of the Plains
6. The Uplands and Plateaus
7. Natural Regions and Political Divisions
8. The American Nation
9. Ahout Latitude and Longitude
The New England States
1. New England Beginnings
2. Manufacturing in New England
3. New England Farming
4. New England's Fisheries
5. The Forests and the Quarries
6. Boston—New England's Largest City
7. New England as a Vacation Land
The Middle Atlantic States
1. New York City
2. The Fall-Line Cities
3. The Coastal Plain and the Piedmont Belt
4. The Appalachian Mountains
5. The Appalachian Plateau
6. The New York Canal Belt and Its Northern Borderlands
The Southern States
1. Agricultural Beginnings in the South
2. Cotton in the South
3. More about the Cotton Belt
4. Southern Forests
5. Southern Oil Fields
6. Regions Shared with the Middle Atlantic States
7. The Tennessee Valley and the Nashville Basin
8. The Florida Peninsula
9. The Mississippi Valley and the Gulf Coast Lands
The Central States
1. How the Plains Were Settled
2. The Corn Belt
3. South of the Corn Belt
4. The Wheat Lands
5. North of the Corn Belt
6. Some Great Manufacturing Areas
The Western States
1. Some Western Contrasts
2. Glimpses of the Great Plains
3. The Rocky Mountains
4. The Western Plateaus
5. Pacific Borderlands in the Northwest
6. Pacific Borderlands in the Southwest
Our Bordering Oceans
1. How the Oceans Became Known
2. Some Atlantic and Pacific Comparisons
3. The Oceans as Highways
4. The Panama Canal
5. Freedom of the Seas
The United States in Its Global Setting
1. The United States in the World of Land and Water
2. The United States in the World of Land, Water, and Air
Outlying Lands Associated with the United States
1. Alaska—Our Largest Territory
2. The Hawaiian Islands
3. The Republic of the Philippines
4. American Lands in the West Indies
CANADA
Continental Canada
1. The Canadian People
2. Some Comparisons between Canada and the United States
3. The Maritime Provinces
4. The Eastern Plains
5. The Plains of the Prairie Provinces
6. The Canadian Far West
7. Northern Canada
Newfoundland
LATIN AMERICA
Our Neighhors to the South
Mexico—Our Nearest Southern Neighbor
1. How Mexico Was Won for Spain
2. Some Mexican Contrasts
3. The Coastal Regions
4. The Mexican Plateau and the Sierras
The Republics of Central America
The West Indies
Middle America and the War
The Spaniards and the Portuguese in South
America
Brazil
1. Eastern Brazil
2. The Amazon Lowlands
3. South Brazil and the Interior Savanna
Uruguay
Argentina
1. Buenos Aires and the Pampa
2. The Other Regions of Argentina
Paraguay
Chile
i. Central Chile
2. Chiles North and South
Bolivia
Peru
Ecuador
Colombia
Venezuela
The Ouianas
South America and the War
REFERENCE MATERIAL
INDEX AND PRONOUNCING WORD LIST
Contents
HOW EUROPE WON A NEW WORLD
News That Would Have Made Headlines
The First Americans
The Twelfth of Octoher, 1492
After Columbus
From Colonies to Free Nations
THE UNITED STATES
The Land That Is Ours
1. A Large Country and a Rich One
2. Weather and Climate
3. "America the Beautiful"
4. The Mountains of Our Country
5. Glimpses of the Plains
6. The Uplands and Plateaus
7. Natural Regions and Political Divisions
8. The American Nation
9. Ahout Latitude and Longitude
The New England States
1. New England Beginnings
2. Manufacturing in New England
3. New England Farming
4. New England's Fisheries
5. The Forests and the Quarries
6. Boston—New England's Largest City
7. New England as a Vacation Land
The Middle Atlantic States
1. New York City
2. The Fall-Line Cities
3. The Coastal Plain and the Piedmont Belt
4. The Appalachian Mountains
5. The Appalachian Plateau
6. The New York Canal Belt and Its Northern Borderlands
The Southern States
1. Agricultural Beginnings in the South
2. Cotton in the South
3. More about the Cotton Belt
4. Southern Forests
5. Southern Oil Fields
6. Regions Shared with the Middle Atlantic States
7. The Tennessee Valley and the Nashville Basin
8. The Florida Peninsula
9. The Mississippi Valley and the Gulf Coast Lands
The Central States
1. How the Plains Were Settled
2. The Corn Belt
3. South of the Corn Belt
4. The Wheat Lands
5. North of the Corn Belt
6. Some Great Manufacturing Areas
The Western States
1. Some Western Contrasts
2. Glimpses of the Great Plains
3. The Rocky Mountains
4. The Western Plateaus
5. Pacific Borderlands in the Northwest
6. Pacific Borderlands in the Southwest
Our Bordering Oceans
1. How the Oceans Became Known
2. Some Atlantic and Pacific Comparisons
3. The Oceans as Highways
4. The Panama Canal
5. Freedom of the Seas
The United States in Its Global Setting
1. The United States in the World of Land and Water
2. The United States in the World of Land, Water, and Air
Outlying Lands Associated with the United States
1. Alaska—Our Largest Territory
2. The Hawaiian Islands
3. The Republic of the Philippines
4. American Lands in the West Indies
CANADA
Continental Canada
1. The Canadian People
2. Some Comparisons between Canada and the United States
3. The Maritime Provinces
4. The Eastern Plains
5. The Plains of the Prairie Provinces
6. The Canadian Far West
7. Northern Canada
Newfoundland
LATIN AMERICA
Our Neighhors to the South
Mexico—Our Nearest Southern Neighbor
1. How Mexico Was Won for Spain
2. Some Mexican Contrasts
3. The Coastal Regions
4. The Mexican Plateau and the Sierras
The Republics of Central America
The West Indies
Middle America and the War
The Spaniards and the Portuguese in South
America
Brazil
1. Eastern Brazil
2. The Amazon Lowlands
3. South Brazil and the Interior Savanna
Uruguay
Argentina
1. Buenos Aires and the Pampa
2. The Other Regions of Argentina
Paraguay
Chile
i. Central Chile
2. Chiles North and South
Bolivia
Peru
Ecuador
Colombia
Venezuela
The Ouianas
South America and the War
REFERENCE MATERIAL
INDEX AND PRONOUNCING WORD LIST