North America: The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent. This item is unavailable.North America: The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent

This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North American regions from European exploration and colonization to the second half of the twentieth century. Collectively the contributors explore the key themes of acquisition of geographical knowledge, cultural transfer and acculturation, frontier expansion, spatial organization of society, resource exploitation, regional and national integration, and landscape change. With six new chapters, redrawn maps, a new introduction that explores scholarly trends in historical geography since publication of the first edition, and a new final chapter guiding students to the basic sources for historical geographic enquiry, North America will be an indispensable text in historical geography courses.

Richard Harris served for 31 years in the Royal Navy; joining the RN Reserve as an Able Seaman, and leaving the Regular Service as a Commodore in 2023. He served at sea in nine ships and undertook operational deployments to the Arabian Gulf, South Atlantic, Mediterranean and Arctic Circle. He commanded the RN Logistics Training School, as well as being responsible for training Officer Cadets at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. His penultimate assignment as a Captain was as the Commanding Officer of HMS RALEIGH, the Navy's primary training establishment. Having also served as the Deputy Head of RN Media and Engagement and the Ministry of Defence's Deputy Director of Inclusion, his knowledge of the sailors of the RN is wide and deep.

Kenneth C. Martis is emeritus professor of geography at West Virginia University.