The Shaping of America
ISBN: 9780300082906
出版社: Yale Univ Pr
出版年: 2000-4
页数: 470
定价: $ 36.73
装帧: Pap
内容简介
In this third volume of his acclaimed series, D. W. Meinig offers a riveting account of the expanding country's development from mid-nineteenth century to the onset of World War I. Beginning with the struggle over where to build the Pacific railway, the book details the settlement of the American West, the nation's increasing consolidation, and America's imperialist efforts in the Caribbean and Pacific. Forty superb new maps accompany this account.